The only thing I know that comes close to what I think you are looking for has been mentioned already: EqualsBuilder from Apache Commons. Or you could go for a reflection-based approach like in Unitils, but this is probably unacceptable performance-wise outside of unit tests.
Funnily enough, I read both your code and my code exactly like you say you'd want it to read, but I agree that it's not "in the code" as such. It's an idiom - OK, an equals() method, now then: the questions I need the code to answer are: which fields?, shallow or deep comparisons?, nulls OK?, subclasses OK? Both implementations give me those answers at a glance. This can bite you in code reviews, but otherwise it helps to not overthink things. ;)
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The only thing I know that comes close to what I think you are looking for has been mentioned already: EqualsBuilder from Apache Commons. Or you could go for a reflection-based approach like in Unitils, but this is probably unacceptable performance-wise outside of unit tests.
Funnily enough, I read both your code and my code exactly like you say you'd want it to read, but I agree that it's not "in the code" as such. It's an idiom - OK, an
equals()method, now then: the questions I need the code to answer are: which fields?, shallow or deep comparisons?, nulls OK?, subclasses OK? Both implementations give me those answers at a glance. This can bite you in code reviews, but otherwise it helps to not overthink things. ;)