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Asked: 2026-05-17T23:47:24+00:00

I’ve got a class which overrides equals() and I want to see where this

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I’ve got a class which overrides equals() and I want to see where this equals method is being used in the workspace. Using Eclipse, I generally do Ctrl-Shift-g which finds all references in the workspace. Unfortunately, for equals(), its pulling back every single reference of equals in my workspace from any type, not just the one where I’ve overridden it and its impossible to figure out which of the many results is pertinent to my search. Is what I want to do possible?

EDIT: To clarify. I have a class A which overrides the equals method. I have a class B (and others) which use class A but do not extend it. I want to find which classes in my workspace use Class A’s equals method regardless of whether or not they belong to Class A’s hierarchy such as Class B.

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  1. Editorial Team

    In general you can’t do this as equals is on Object, take for example

    mysession.getAttribute(“someobject”).equals(foo)

    no way to detect that this object is your class type.

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