I am developing an Android application which makes use of the ScanResult
object. This object is in the form of:
[SSID: __mynetwork__, BSSID: 00:0e:2e:ae:4e:85, capabilities: [WPA-PSK-TKIP][ESS], level: -69, frequency: 2457, timestamp: 117455824743]
How would I override only the equals()
method without creating a customer class which extends it in order to compare only the SSID
, BSSID
, capabilties
, level
and frequency
attributes only? In other words, in the equals
method I want to eliminate the timestamp
attribute, so that when I compare these two objects, the equals()
method would return a true
value:
[SSID: __mynetwork__, BSSID: 00:0e:2e:ae:4e:85, capabilities: [WPA-PSK-TKIP][ESS], level: -69, frequency: 2457, timestamp: 117455824743]
[SSID: __mynetwork__, BSSID: 00:0e:2e:ae:4e:85, capabilities: [WPA-PSK-TKIP][ESS], level: -69, frequency: 2457, timestamp: 117460312231]
Note: When I derive a customer class which extends ScanResult
I get the following error when I try to implement a constructor: The constructor ScanResult() is not visible
You just have to implement it without checking the fields you want to ignore. Don't forget to override the hashode() too.
@Override
public int hashCode() {
final int prime = 31;
int result = 1;
result = prime * result
+ ((field1 == null) ? 0 : field1.hashCode());
result = prime * result + ((field2 == null) ? 0 : field2.hashCode());
...etc
return result;
}
@Override
public boolean equals(Object obj) {
if (this == obj)
return true;
if (obj == null)
return false;
if (getClass() != obj.getClass())
return false;
ScanResult other = (ScanResult ) obj;
if (field1 == null) {
if (other.field1 != null)
return false;
} else if (!field1.equals(other.field1))
return false;
if (field2 == null) {
if (other.field2 != null)
return false;
} else if (!field2 .equals(other.field2 ))
return false;
}
... etc
}
This is your Overriden equals() Method....
@Override
public boolean equals(Object o) {
if (this == o) return true;
if (!(o instanceof ScanResult)) return false;
if(!BSSID.equals(o.BSSID)) return false;
if(!SSID.equals(o.SSID)) return false;
if(!capabilities.equals(o.capabilities)) return false;
if(frequency != o.frequency) return false;
if(level != o.level) return false;
return true;
}
EDIT
Now that the above solution not working, may I suggest:
class ScanResultComparator {
public static boolean equals(ScanResult a, ScanResult b){
if(!a.BSSID.equals(b.BSSID)) return false;
if(!a.SSID.equals(b.SSID)) return false;
if(!a.capabilities.equals(b.capabilities)) return false;
if(a.frequency != b.frequency) return false;
if(a.level != b.level) return false;
return true;
}
}
Extend the ScanResult
class and only override the equals()
method
class CustomScanResult extends ScanResult {
@Override
public boolean equals(Object o) {
// ... custom logic ...
}
}