Groovy Equality Mixin

This is a simple mixin to build a dynamic equals(Object o) method for a class at runtime.

A simple example:

class Something {
	String name
	String description
	int age
	String address
}

// Just add the mixin and do some equality checking
Something.mixin DynamicEquality

assert new Something().equals(new Something())

Maven

To grab this library from Maven, use JCenter (see the JCenter website for instructions),

The artifact details are:

• artifactId: groovy-equality-mixin
• groupId: uk.co.ryanbrooks.groovy

Use case

This mixin is best used to supplement external libraries which can't have the source code directly modified, but which need to be compared for equality.

Limitations

This mixin does everything at runtime and doesn't (currently) cache the properties list. As a result it is likely to be slower than a properly implemented equals method or the @EqualsAndHashCode AST transformation.

Contributing

Pull requests, issues and abuse on Twitter are all welcome!

Publishing

To publish this to Bintray you need to update the credentials in build.gradle and then run the following:

$ gradle build
$ gradle bintrayUpload

License

This project is released under the MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Ryan Brooks

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