8234783: Improve wording of spec of Record.equals

Reviewed-by: jjg, vromero
This commit is contained in:
Joe Darcy 2020-01-07 10:22:06 -08:00
parent af4ad226c8
commit 03073cd46d

View File

@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/*
* Copyright (c) 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
* Copyright (c) 2019, 2020, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
* DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
*
* This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ public abstract class Record {
/**
* Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one. In addition
* to the general contract of {@link Object#equals(Object)},
* record classes must further participate in the invariant that when
* to the general contract of {@link Object#equals(Object) Object.equals},
* record classes must further obey the invariant that when
* a record instance is "copied" by passing the result of the record component
* accessor methods to the canonical constructor, as follows:
* <pre>
@ -107,17 +107,38 @@ public abstract class Record {
* then it must be the case that {@code r.equals(copy)}.
*
* @implSpec
* The implicitly provided implementation returns {@code true} if and
* only if the argument is an instance of the same record type as this object,
* and each component of this record is equal to the corresponding component
* of the argument, according to {@link java.util.Objects#equals(Object,Object)}
* for components whose types are reference types, and according to the semantics
* of the {@code equals} method on the corresponding primitive wrapper type.
* The implicitly provided implementation returns {@code true} if
* and only if the argument is an instance of the same record type
* as this object, and each component of this record is equal to
* the corresponding component of the argument; otherwise, {@code
* false} is returned. Equality of a component {@code c} is
* determined as follows:
* <ul>
*
* <li> If the component is of a reference type, the component is
* considered equal if and only if {@link
* java.util.Objects#equals(Object,Object)
* Objects.equals(this.c(), r.c()} would return {@code true}.
*
* <li> If the component is of a primitive type, using the
* corresponding primitive wrapper class {@code PW} (the
* corresponding wrapper class for {@code int} is {@code
* java.lang.Integer}, and so on), the component is considered
* equal if and only if {@code
* PW.valueOf(this.c()).equals(PW.valueOf(r.c()))} would return
* {@code true}.
*
* </ul>
*
* The implicitly provided implementation conforms to the
* semantics described above; the implementation may or may not
* accomplish this by using calls to the particular methods
* listed.
*
* @see java.util.Objects#equals(Object,Object)
*
* @param obj the reference object with which to compare.
* @return {@code true} if this object is the same as the obj
* @return {@code true} if this object is equal to the
* argument; {@code false} otherwise.
*/
@Override