Is this suppose to work like this:
I have a class called foo in which I tried to override equals and return
different answers based on what was passed in.
public class foo
{
private string _name;
public string Name
{
get
{
return _name;
}
}
public override bool Equals(object obj)
{
if (obj is string)
{
string tempStr = (string)obj;
return this._name.Equa ls(tempStr);
}
if (obj is foo)
{
foo tempfoo = (foo)obj;
return tempfoo.Name.Eq uals(this._name );
}
return false;
}
}
if I have an arraylist of foo objects and call the Contains method with a
string object as the parameter, the Equals method on the foo class is never
called. If I pass it a foo object, it all works as planned. Is there some
rule that say the parameter for the Equals method must be the same type as
the class Equals is based on?
Just curious.
Thanks
--
Frank Wisniewski MCSE 4.0, MCP+I, A+
f p w 2 3 @ h o t m a i l . c o m 3 3781
"Frank Wisniewski" wrote... if I have an arraylist of foo objects and call the Contains method with a string object as the parameter, the Equals method on the foo class is never called. If I pass it a foo object, it all works as planned. Is there some rule that say the parameter for the Equals method must be the same type as the class Equals is based on?
Nope, but as you use a string object as the argument, it's the string.Equals
that will be used.
The other way around would work, with an ArrayList of strings, where you
could pass a foo instance.
// Bjorn A
Frank,
In addition to Bjorn's comments. Is there some rule that say the parameter for the Equals method must be the same type as the class Equals is based on?
The "Design Guidelines for Class Library Developers -- Implementing the
Equals Method" http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...pconEquals.asp
States "x.Equals(y ) returns the same value as y.Equals(x)"...
Hope this helps
Jay
"Frank Wisniewski" <fp***@hotmail. com> wrote in message
news:41******** **@Usenet.com.. . Is this suppose to work like this:
I have a class called foo in which I tried to override equals and return different answers based on what was passed in.
public class foo { private string _name;
public string Name { get { return _name; } }
public override bool Equals(object obj) { if (obj is string) { string tempStr = (string)obj; return this._name.Equa ls(tempStr); }
if (obj is foo) { foo tempfoo = (foo)obj; return tempfoo.Name.Eq uals(this._name ); }
return false; }
}
if I have an arraylist of foo objects and call the Contains method with a string object as the parameter, the Equals method on the foo class is never called. If I pass it a foo object, it all works as planned. Is there some rule that say the parameter for the Equals method must be the same type as the class Equals is based on?
Just curious.
Thanks -- Frank Wisniewski MCSE 4.0, MCP+I, A+ f p w 2 3 @ h o t m a i l . c o m
Oh,
Thanks Bjorn
that makes sense now.
--
Frank Wisniewski MCSE 4.0, MCP+I, A+
f p w 2 3 @ h o t m a i l . c o m
"Bjorn Abelli" <bj**********@D oNotSpam.hotmai l.com> wrote in message
news:%2******** ********@TK2MSF TNGP10.phx.gbl. .. "Frank Wisniewski" wrote...
if I have an arraylist of foo objects and call the Contains method with a string object as the parameter, the Equals method on the foo class is never called. If I pass it a foo object, it all works as planned. Is there some rule that say the parameter for the Equals method must be the same type as the class Equals is based on? Nope, but as you use a string object as the argument, it's the
string.Equals that will be used.
The other way around would work, with an ArrayList of strings, where you could pass a foo instance.
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