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Module contains external API of the evitaDB.
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package io.evitadb.api.requestResponse.data;
import javax.annotation.Nullable;
/**
* This interface allows to unite access to the full internals object comparison. This comparison is usually done in
* {@link Object#equals(Object)} method but in Evita immutable objects are {@link Object#hashCode()} and {@link Object#equals(Object)}
* optimized for sped and use only primary key and version. For tests and other purposes we need also full comparison
* method that check entire contents for equality.
*
* @author Jan Novotný ([email protected]), FG Forrest a.s. (c) 2021
*/
public interface ContentComparator {
/**
* Returns true if single item deep wise differs from the item of other object. This and otherObject must be of
* equal types.
*/
boolean differsFrom(@Nullable T otherObject);
}