org.gbif.api.model.registry

Interface LenientEquals<T>

All Known Implementing Classes:

Address, Collection, Comment, Contact, Contact, Dataset, Endpoint, Identifier, Installation, Institution, MachineTag, Metadata, Network, Node, OccurrenceMapping, Organization, PipelineStep, Tag

public interface LenientEquals<T>

An interface to allow model objects to offer a consistent lenient equality check. Implementations are free to declare what this means in the specific context, but it is expected that this be used to imply a business logic unique. For example, contact details that are not yet persisted might be equal to a persisted contact in every way except that the server controlled fields of key, createdDate, modifiedDate etc are not yet present.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	lenientEquals(T other) Leniently tests if the objects are the same.

Method Detail

lenientEquals

boolean lenientEquals(T other)

Leniently tests if the objects are the same. Implementors should declare what this means in practice.

Parameters:

other - To compare against

Returns:

true if...