Question

Basically i don’t want to compare elements, but elements that thy contain. It would be cool if following would work, but it does not.

public boolean equals(Ie<T> that) {
    T This = this.value;
    T That = that.value;
    boolean x = That.compareTo(This) == 0;
    return x;
}

What i have done is :

public boolean equals(Object obj) {
    if (obj == null)
        return false;

    String tmp = obj.toString();
    if (this.value instanceof Integer)
        return equalsInt(new Ie<Integer>(Integer.parseInt(tmp)));
    // etc.

    return false;
}

public boolean equalsInt(Ie<Integer> ie) {
    Integer This = this.value.intValue();
    Integer That = ie.value;
    boolean x = That.compareTo(This) == 0;
    return x;
}

This is a obvious brute-force solution. Can it be done without obj.toString(); + new element?

Edit:

Class Ie is defined as:

public static class Ie<T extends Number & Comparable<? super T>>
        extends Number implements Comparable<Ie<T>> {

Class has rather simple compare to method:

public int compareTo(Ie<T> that) {
    T This = this.value;
    T That = that.value;
    return (This.compareTo(That) < 0 ? -1 : (This
            .compareTo(That) > 0 ? 1 : 0));
}

I am using the class in Collection addall method, where contains is calling equals.

Erikson solution worked fine:

@Override
public boolean equals(Object that) {
    if (that == null)
        return false;
    if (this == that)
        return true;
    if (that instanceof Ie<?>) {
        Object ThisValue = this.value;
        Object ThatValue = ((Ie<?>) that).value;
        return ThisValue.equals(ThatValue);
    }

    return false;
}

Answer 1

@Override
public boolean equals(Object that)
{
    if (this == that)
      return true;
    if (that instanceof Ie) {
      Object ThisValue = this.value;
      Object ThatValue = ((Ie<?>) that).value;
      return ThisValue.equals(ThatValue);
    } else 
      return false;
}