[BEAM-3279] Deprecate and remove Coder consistentWithEquals in favor of overriding structuredValue

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: P3
• Resolution: Done
• Fix Version/s: Missing
• Component/s: sdk-java-core
• Labels: Done starter
• Assignee: Alexander Savchenko
• Reporter: Kenneth Knowles
• Created: 01/Dec/17 21:26
• Updated: 13/Jan/22 21:52
• Resolved: 26/Mar/19 07:25

Description

Summary of discussion linked below:
consistentWithEquals() is redundant w.r.t. structuralValue(), and should be deprecated. I think our mutation detectors are already using structuralValue(), so the work here would be to simply mark the method deprecated, remove all remaining overrides in the SDK, and document that overriding the method is a no-op.

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8b2dcf09ba8e46b3c008293d99e4028d10463148b68326687dc29a4d@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8071