Did you override equals()?
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "jeff" <jeffrey.blattman_at_yahoo.com>
To: <persistence_at_glassfish.dev.java.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 7:25 PM
Subject: calling equals() on a detached object
> i'd like to be able to do this ...
>
> 1. create object A
> 2. persist object A
> 3. find() object B based on A's ID (they should be "equal()"
> 4. detach B
> 3. call A.equals(B) and get a true result
>
> i've done this, and it does not work. as far as i can tell w/ the
> debugger, they are equal. the problem appears to be when a field of type
> Set is compared.
>
> when i poke into B, and try to look into the Set, i have to bury way down
> in some toplink objects before i find the right values for the set, but
> they ARE in there somewhere.
>
> also, to make sure B is all fetched, i called B.equals(B) before
> detaching, which should load everything i care about i think. if there's a
> better way to do this, i'd like to hear it :)
>
> when i call toString() on the Set inside of A and B, the format is
> slightly different but it does contain the same data: for example ...
>
> A's set: [zipCodes=[11111, 22222, 33333]]
> B's set: {{[zipCodes=[11111, 22222, 33333]]}}
>
> so i guess this means the same data is there, but i don't understand why
> "equals" is failing.
>
> any ideas?
> thanks.
>
>
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