[LANG-1034] Add support for recursive comparison to EqualsBuilder#reflectionEquals

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.6
• Component/s: lang.builder.*
• Assignee: Pascal Schumacher
• Reporter: Duncan Jones
• Created: 07/Aug/14 07:45
• Updated: 07/Oct/17 10:03
• Resolved: 13/Nov/16 17:48

Description

The current implementation of EqualsBuilder.reflectionEquals() uses object equality to test reference fields found in the class. It may be helpful to offer a method that recursively builds .equals() methods for each field and uses that to perform the comparison.

This functionality could be further extended by accepting a list of classes to include/exclude. Classes that are excluded would use the normal object equality.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #202