Equals override

vishyanand · **Joined:** Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:08 pm **Posts:** 37

For entity objects,hbernate suggests overriding equals method..should this equality be checked on id? For example,i have a hotel entity..now in my scenario two hotels are same if they have same name and same location..so should check on name/location,or id of entity objects

gert · **Joined:** Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:29 pm **Posts:** 348

vishyanand wrote:

For entity objects,hbernate suggests overriding equals method..should this equality be checked on id? For example,i have a hotel entity..now in my scenario two hotels are same if they have same name and same location..so should check on name/location,or id of entity objects

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/nhibernate/html/persistent-classes.html#persistent-classes-equalshashcode is pretty explicit about the issue...

Gert

vishyanand · **Joined:** Fri Jul 07, 2006 12:08 pm **Posts:** 37

thks gert..