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Interface EqualityHelper</H2>
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<DT><B>All Known Implementing Classes:</B> <DD><A HREF="../../../com/agfa/hap/sdo/implementation/EqualityHelperImpl.html" title="class in com.agfa.hap.sdo.implementation">EqualityHelperImpl</A></DD>
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<DT><PRE>public interface <B>EqualityHelper</B></DL>
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A helper for comparing DataObjects.
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<CODE>static&nbsp;<A HREF="../../../commonj/sdo/helper/EqualityHelper.html" title="interface in commonj.sdo.helper">EqualityHelper</A></CODE></FONT></TD>
<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="../../../commonj/sdo/helper/EqualityHelper.html#INSTANCE">INSTANCE</A></B></CODE>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The default EqualityHelper.</TD>
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<CODE>&nbsp;boolean</CODE></FONT></TD>
<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="../../../commonj/sdo/helper/EqualityHelper.html#equal(commonj.sdo.DataObject, commonj.sdo.DataObject)">equal</A></B>(<A HREF="../../../commonj/sdo/DataObject.html" title="interface in commonj.sdo">DataObject</A>&nbsp;dataObject1,
<A HREF="../../../commonj/sdo/DataObject.html" title="interface in commonj.sdo">DataObject</A>&nbsp;dataObject2)</CODE>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Two DataObjects are equal(Deep) if they are equalShallow,
all their compared Properties are equal, and all reachable DataObjects in their
graphs excluding containers are equal.</TD>
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<CODE>&nbsp;boolean</CODE></FONT></TD>
<TD><CODE><B><A HREF="../../../commonj/sdo/helper/EqualityHelper.html#equalShallow(commonj.sdo.DataObject, commonj.sdo.DataObject)">equalShallow</A></B>(<A HREF="../../../commonj/sdo/DataObject.html" title="interface in commonj.sdo">DataObject</A>&nbsp;dataObject1,
<A HREF="../../../commonj/sdo/DataObject.html" title="interface in commonj.sdo">DataObject</A>&nbsp;dataObject2)</CODE>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Two DataObjects are equalShallow if
they have the same <A HREF="../../../commonj/sdo/DataObject.html#getType()"><CODE>Type</CODE></A>
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INSTANCE</H3>
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static final <A HREF="../../../commonj/sdo/helper/EqualityHelper.html" title="interface in commonj.sdo.helper">EqualityHelper</A> <B>INSTANCE</B></PRE>
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equalShallow</H3>
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boolean <B>equalShallow</B>(<A HREF="../../../commonj/sdo/DataObject.html" title="interface in commonj.sdo">DataObject</A>&nbsp;dataObject1,
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<DD><p>Two DataObjects are equalShallow if
they have the same <A HREF="../../../commonj/sdo/DataObject.html#getType()"><CODE>Type</CODE></A>
and all their compared Properties are equal.
The set of Properties compared are the
<A HREF="../../../commonj/sdo/DataObject.html#getInstanceProperties()"><CODE>instance properties</CODE></A>
where property.getType().isDataType() is true
and property.getType() is not ChangeSummaryType.
<br/>Two of these Property values are equal if they are both not
<A HREF="../../../commonj/sdo/DataObject.html#isSet(commonj.sdo.Property)"><CODE>set</CODE></A>, or set to an equal value
dataObject1.get(property).equals(dataObject2.get(property))
<br/>If the type is a sequenced type, the sequence entries must be the same.
For each entry x in the sequence where the property is used in the comparison,
dataObject1.getSequence().getValue(x).equals(
dataObject2.getSequence().getValue(x)) and
dataObject1.getSequence().getProperty(x) ==
dataObject2.getSequence().getProperty(x)
must be true.
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Returns true the objects have the same Type and all values of all compared Properties are equal.
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<DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><CODE>dataObject1</CODE> - DataObject to be compared<DD><CODE>dataObject2</CODE> - DataObject to be compared
<DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>true the objects have the same Type and all values of all compared Properties are equal.</DL>
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equal</H3>
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boolean <B>equal</B>(<A HREF="../../../commonj/sdo/DataObject.html" title="interface in commonj.sdo">DataObject</A>&nbsp;dataObject1,
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<DD><p>Two DataObjects are equal(Deep) if they are equalShallow,
all their compared Properties are equal, and all reachable DataObjects in their
graphs excluding containers are equal.
The set of Properties compared are the
<A HREF="../../../commonj/sdo/DataObject.html#getInstanceProperties()"><CODE>instance properties</CODE></A>
where property.getType().isDataType() is false,
and is not a container property, ie !property.getOpposite().isContainment()
<br/>Two of these Property values are equal if they are both not
<A HREF="../../../commonj/sdo/DataObject.html#isSet(commonj.sdo.Property)"><CODE>set</CODE></A>, or all the DataObjects
they refer to are <A HREF="../../../commonj/sdo/helper/EqualityHelper.html#equal(commonj.sdo.DataObject, commonj.sdo.DataObject)"><CODE>equal</CODE></A> in the
context of dataObject1 and dataObject2.
<br/>Note that properties to a containing DataObject are not compared
which means two DataObject trees can be equal even if their containers are not equal.
<br/>If the type is a sequenced type, the sequence entries must be the same.
For each entry x in the sequence where the property is used in the comparison,
equal(dataObject1.getSequence().getValue(x),
dataObject2.getSequence().getValue(x)) and
dataObject1.getSequence().getProperty(x) ==
dataObject2.getSequence().getProperty(x)
must be true.
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A DataObject directly or indirectly referenced by dataObject1 or dataObject2
can only be equal to exactly one DataObject directly or indirectly referenced
by dataObject1 or dataObject2, respectively.
This ensures that dataObject1 and dataObject2 are equal if the graph formed by
all their referenced DataObjects have the same shape.
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Returns true if the trees of DataObjects are equal(Deep).
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<DT><B>Parameters:</B><DD><CODE>dataObject1</CODE> - DataObject to be compared<DD><CODE>dataObject2</CODE> - DataObject to be compared
<DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>true if the trees of DataObjects are equal(Deep).</DL>
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