LenientEquals (GBIF Common :: API 2.1.18 API)

All Known Implementing Classes:

Address, Collection, Comment, Contact, Contact, Dataset, DescriptorGroup, Endpoint, Identifier, Installation, Institution, MachineTag, Metadata, Network, Node, OccurrenceMapping, Organization, PipelineStep, Tag
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public interface LenientEquals<T>
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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
  
  All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
  Modifier and Type Method Description
  
  boolean lenientEquals(T other)
  Leniently tests if the objects are the same.

- Method Detail
  - lenientEquals
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boolean lenientEquals(T other)
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    Leniently tests if the objects are the same. Implementors should declare what this means in practice.
    
    Parameters:
    
    other - To compare against
    
    Returns:
    
    true if...