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Jason Smiley commented on LANG-1330:
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https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1249 might be sufficient, but,
technically the request here is to be able to call custom equal methods by
class type so the burden.
In my implementation, I am technically using 2 different EqualsBuilder
instances, so I am not sure if the bug fix would be enough, but, when I walked
through the code, you could see the ignored fields were lost.
> EqualsBuilder should be able to call custom equals method for specified class
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>
> Key: LANG-1330
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1330
> Project: Commons Lang
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Jason Smiley
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> As a tester, there are times I want to exclude certain fields (like ID) for
> my parent object and its children.
> For example:
> {code}
> class Parent {
> public String id;
> public NormalChild child1;
> public SpecialChild child2;
> //uses ReflectionEqualsBuilder for equals();
> //has custom equalsWithoutID() method;
> }
> class NormalChild extend Child {
> public String name;
> //uses ReflectionEqualsBuilder equals();
> //has custom equalsWithoutID() method via inheritance;
> }
> class SpecialChild extend Child {
> public String id;
> public String name;
> //uses ReflectionEqualsBuilder for equals();
> //has custom equalsWithoutID() method via inheritence;
> }
> {code}
> If I am running a reflectionEquals with excluding field "id" on my parent
> object, the excludedFields won't be used on my children classes (only
> excludes fields of parent with name). I would like to be able to call the
> custom equalsWithoutID() if its an instance of class Child.
> Currently i need to do a workaround where my equals() checks to see which
> method I was using before executing but its not an ideal solution.
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