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Matt Benson commented on LANG-637:
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Hi, Duncan. After more than a year, I have now reviewed this. I personally
would like to see DiffList implement List<Diff<?>>, and then I would personally
be in favor of committing this code. As long as it has been, I can understand
if you've moved on and don't have time to make this change, in which case I can
do it.
> There should be a DifferenceBuilder with a ReflectionDifferenceBuilder
> implementation
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>
> Key: LANG-637
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-637
> Project: Commons Lang
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: lang.builder.*
> Reporter: Eric Lewis
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: Review Patch
>
> Attachments: Diff.java, DiffBuilder.java, DiffBuilderTest.java,
> DiffList.java, DiffListTest.java, DiffTest.java, Diffable.java,
> commons-lang3-LANG-637-complete.patch, commons-lang3-LANG-637.patch
>
>
> The ToStringBuilder and ReflectionToStringBuilder are great tools for
> everyday development.
> We use them to show all the properties in an object, which comes handy
> especially for testing.
> However, JUnit with its assertEquals() just outputs the toString() of the two
> compared objects. For complex objects, this becomes unreadable.
> So, it would be great to have a DifferenceBuilder with a
> ReflectionDifferenceBuilder implementation to be able to get only the
> differing properties of two objects. The question is whether the two objects
> would have to be of the same type or not.
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