Class Equatable

A set of utilities uses for easily wrapping .NET collections so they can be used with , and behavior similar to that in Java. The equality checking of collections will recursively compare the values of all elements and any nested collections. The same goes for using - the string is based on the values in the collection and any nested collections.

Do note this has a side-effect that any custom , and implementations for types that implement (including arrays), , or will be ignored.

Inheritance

System.Object

Equatable

Namespace: Lucene.Net.Support

Assembly: Lucene.Net.dll

Syntax

public static class Equatable : object

Methods

Wrap<T>(IList<T>)

Wraps any (including T[]) with a lightweight EquatableList<T> class that changes the behavior of , and so they consider all values in the or any nested collections when comparing or making strings to represent them. No other behavior is changed - only these 3 methods.

Note that if the list is already an EquatableList<T> or a subclass of it, this method simply returns the provided list.

Declaration

public static IList<T> Wrap<T>(IList<T> list)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
IList<T>	list	Any (including T[])

Returns

Type	Description
IList<T>	An EquatableList<T> that wraps the provided list, or the value of list unmodified if it already is an EquatableList<T>

Type Parameters

Name	Description
T	the type of element

Wrap<T>(ISet<T>)

Wraps any with a lightweight EquatableSet<T> class that changes the behavior of , and so they consider all values in the or any nested collections when comparing or making strings to represent them. No other behavior is changed - only these 3 methods.

Note that if the set is already an EquatableSet<T> or a subclass of it, this method simply returns the provided set.

Declaration

public static ISet<T> Wrap<T>(ISet<T> set)

Parameters

Type	Name	Description
ISet<T>	set	Any (including T[])

Returns

Type	Description
ISet<T>	An EquatableSet<T> that wraps the provided set, or the value of set unmodified if it already is an EquatableSet<T>

Type Parameters

Name	Description
T	the type of element