Re: Patch fixes bad equals signatures

[Michael Glavassevich]

Hello Dave,

org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.util.XInt is part of Xerces' internal API. We don't normally encourage people to use these classes since they may change or disappear at any time. It also doesn't appear that either of the current equals methods which you've cited are called anywhere in the code.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/08/2004 06:01:32 PM:

> When implementing the .equals method, the parameter should be
> defined as Object
> otherwise calls like this
>
>
> XInt i = new XInt( 1 );
>
> if (i.equals( myMap.get("foo")))
>
> may call the wrong method (the one in Object), and cause havoc
>
>
> This patch fixes the problems.
>
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Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
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