Adding a function to Objects in order to facilitate equality checking and enhance readability. You simply specify the 2 objects that you want to check for equality, and then provide the functions which will be used to provide the values that we will check for equality.
------------- Commit messages: - Fixing whitespace - Correcting JavaDoc - Fixing a bug in the provided code example. - Adding better documentation for more corner cases - Adding helpful documentation to cover corner cases - paren - Using the @snippet feature - Merge branch 'openjdk:master' into patch-1 - Add new method equalsBy to java.util.Objects Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17603/files Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=17603&range=00 Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8324718 Stats: 102 lines in 1 file changed: 101 ins; 0 del; 1 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17603.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/17603/head:pull/17603 PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17603
