Re: Re: transactions - equals and hashcode method

On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 16:07, Sunil Goyal wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> It looks the bug I was trying to find is because of the equals method.
> 
> I am using something like this..
> 
> class AImpl extends OzoneObject impelements A{
>     String OID;  //
> 
>     public boolean equals(Object obj) {
>          if (obj != null) {
>          	if (OID.equals(((A)obj).getOID()) )
>              	return true;
> 		}
>          return false;
>      }
> 
>      public int hashCode() {
> 		return OID.hashCode();
>      }
> }
> 
> Looks like this is giving me troubles and resulted in stack
> overflow troubles later.

Are you sure you have no kind of recursion going on? 99 out of 100 stack
overflows I get are recursion related.

> Is there some problem using the above approach for equals() and
> hashcode() methods?

No.

Cheers,
Leo




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