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Re: The behavior of "equals" method of Arrays.asList() implementation

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From	Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid>
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Subject	Re: The behavior of "equals" method of Arrays.asList() implementation
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On 6/28/2011 5:19 AM, Alex J wrote:
> Basically I wonder if it is safe to use equals for collections (and
> junit's assertEquals in particular which in fact results in the
> *.equals invocation).
>
> One of collection instances I am working with is returned from
> Arrays.asList(..) method invocation.
> Sun JDK sources defines no equals method for
> java.util.Arrays.ArrayList inner class so I guess it is not safe to
> compare collections in that way.

     Look again.  The nested class extends AbstractList, and
inherits the equals() implementation from it.

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Eric Sosman
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The behavior of "equals" method of Arrays.asList() implementation Alex J <vstrength@gmail.com> - 2011-06-28 02:19 -0700
  Re: The behavior of "equals" method of Arrays.asList() implementation Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-06-28 07:08 -0400
    Re: The behavior of "equals" method of Arrays.asList() implementation Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2011-06-28 07:29 -0400
  Re: The behavior of "equals" method of Arrays.asList() implementation Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-06-28 10:04 -0700

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