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What are the pitfalls of comparing Class instances using the equality operator?
boolean compareTypes(Class<?> clazz, Class<?> rootClazz) {
return clazz == rootClazz;
}
No pitfalls really; it behaves just as you’d expect, if you expect the actual behavior 🙂 Besides, the
equals()method forClassobjects is just the inherited one fromObject, which uses the==operator anyway.The only surprising part is if the same class file is loaded by two different class loaders, you’ll get two separate class objects which will compare as
false. This is by design.