Comments on: Testing Hibernate mappings: Testing Equality http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/10/29/testing-hibernate-mappings-testing-equality/ Thoughts on Software Development Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Testing Hibernate mappings: Setting up test data at Mark Needham http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/10/29/testing-hibernate-mappings-testing-equality/comment-page-1/#comment-1131 Testing Hibernate mappings: Setting up test data at Mark Needham Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:41:00 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=556#comment-1131 [...] How to test for equality? [...] [...] How to test for equality? [...]

]]> By: Kris Kemper http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/2008/10/29/testing-hibernate-mappings-testing-equality/comment-page-1/#comment-1064 Kris Kemper Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:36:46 +0000 http://www.markhneedham.com/blog/?p=556#comment-1064 I agree that equality for persisted domain objects should be based on identity and not values. The primary key and class type is usually all you need to do this. Now, value equality does come in handy. I tend to implement a valuesEquals() method for this, and use something like the Apache Commons equals builder (in java) so that I'm not writing reflection code myself. I agree that equality for persisted domain objects should be based on identity and not values. The primary key and class type is usually all you need to do this.

Now, value equality does come in handy. I tend to implement a valuesEquals() method for this, and use something like the Apache Commons equals builder (in java) so that I’m not writing reflection code myself.

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