From ff3ac901683165e24c35247179eaef78d1101152 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Reinier Zwitserloot Date: Fri, 15 May 2015 11:30:43 +0200 Subject: minor doc update on EqualsAndHashCode. --- website/features/EqualsAndHashCode.html | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'website') diff --git a/website/features/EqualsAndHashCode.html b/website/features/EqualsAndHashCode.html index 0cad6b1b..b220e955 100644 --- a/website/features/EqualsAndHashCode.html +++ b/website/features/EqualsAndHashCode.html @@ -17,7 +17,8 @@

Any class definition may be annotated with @EqualsAndHashCode to let lombok generate implementations of the equals(Object other) and hashCode() methods. By default, it'll use all non-static, non-transient fields, but you can exclude more fields by naming them in the optional exclude parameter to the annotation. Alternatively, you can specify exactly which fields you wish to be used by naming them in the of parameter.

- By setting callSuper to true, you can include the equals and hashCode methods of your superclass in the generated methods. For hashCode, the result of super.hashCode() is included in the hash algorithm, and for equals, the generated method will return false if the super implementation thinks it is not equal to the passed in object. Be aware that not all equals implementations handle this situation properly. However, lombok-generated equals implementations do handle this situation properly, so you can safely call your superclass equals if it, too, has a lombok-generated equals method.
+ If applying @EqualsAndHashCode to a class that extends another, this feature gets a bit trickier. Normally, auto-generating an equals and hashCode method for such classes is a bad idea, as the superclass also defines fields, which also need equals/hashCode code but + this code will not be generated. By setting callSuper to true, you can include the equals and hashCode methods of your superclass in the generated methods. For hashCode, the result of super.hashCode() is included in the hash algorithm, and for equals, the generated method will return false if the super implementation thinks it is not equal to the passed in object. Be aware that not all equals implementations handle this situation properly. However, lombok-generated equals implementations do handle this situation properly, so you can safely call your superclass equals if it, too, has a lombok-generated equals method. If you have an explicit superclass you are forced to supply some value for callSuper to acknowledge that you've considered it; failure to do so results in a warning.

Setting callSuper to true when you don't extend anything (you extend java.lang.Object) is a compile-time error, because it would turn the generated equals() and hashCode() implementations into having the same behaviour as simply inheriting these methods from java.lang.Object: only the same object will be equal to each other and will have the same hashCode. Not setting callSuper to true when you extend another class generates a warning, because unless the superclass has no (equality-important) fields, lombok cannot generate an implementation for you that takes into account the fields declared by your superclasses. You'll need to write your own implementations, or rely on the callSuper chaining facility. -- cgit