[jira] [Comment Edited] (OAK-386) Define equality or 'sameness' of Tree objects

["Michael Dürig (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Michael Dürig edited comment on OAK-386 at 10/19/12 9:04 AM:
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Currently this is instance equality and I think we should leave it at that unless we can come up with a sound definition of equality on {{Tree}} s that can be implemented efficiently enough and a use case for it.
                
      was (Author: mduerig):
    Currently this is instance equality and I think we should leave it at that unless we can come up with a sound definition of equality on {{Tree}}s that can be implemented efficiently enough and a use case for it.
                  
> Define equality or 'sameness' of Tree objects
> ---------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OAK-386
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-386
>             Project: Jackrabbit Oak
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: core
>            Reporter: angela
>
> i think the Tree interface and implementation should define what exactly
> can be expected with regard to equality of 2 Tree objects. Since the
> tree is an oak-level correspondent of the jcr Node we may even take
> 'sameness' into consideration as it is defined by Item#isSame. That doesn't
> necessarily mean that we need this on the API but IMO the interface description
> should mention the contract (equality across repositories, sessions, workspaces...).

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