Gilles Sadowski created LANG-1709:
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Summary: Check for "deep" copy
Key: LANG-1709
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1709
Project: Commons Lang
Issue Type: Wish
Components: lang.builder.*
Reporter: Gilles Sadowski
Wouldn't it be useful to have a way to easily check whether some object is a
deep copy of another? I.e. the two instances could be "equal" but the utility
function would return "false" if they share a mutable field.
More generally, how about a function like
{code:java}
public SomeUtils {
/**
* @return true if "a" and "b" do not share any mutable field.
*/
public static <T> boolean areIndependent(T a, T b) { /* ... */ }
// ...
}
{code}
?
It seems that this could (?) be built upon
[{{ReflectionDiffBuilder}}|https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/apidocs/org/apache/commons/lang3/builder/ReflectionDiffBuilder.html].
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