What methods should go into a java.util.Objects class in JDK 7? (original) (raw)

Ulf Zibis Ulf.Zibis at gmx.de
Fri Oct 2 11:31:10 UTC 2009

Am 02.10.2009 06:23, Joe Darcy schrieb:

I wouldn't oppose a toDebugString(Object) method going into the platform somewhere, but I don't think it necessarily belongs in Objects.

I suggest new class java.util.Debug to contain this and many other thinkable helper methods useful for developers.

Further below is the code for an annotation processor which finds candidate equals methods to be replaced with Objects.equals. It found over half a dozen good candidates in the jdk repository. To run the annotation processor, first compile the class and then run it with javac similar to this: javac -proc:only -processor EqualsFinder -processorpath sources

That's very cool.

-Ulf

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