OpenSAML user discussion

[Chad La Joie <>]

That's what I figured.  I'm not sure what unit test Tom was looking at 
but the unit test in the OpenSAML 1.1 head branch correctly do an 
equality comparison on the string serialized format.  So it looks like 
we're set.

Scott Cantor wrote:
> > Because the equals() being used is Object.equals() which simply checks 
> > for reference equality, i.e. nameid1 == nameid2.  Yes, the class should 
> > override equals() if there is a thought that equals() will be used in 
> > that manner.
>
>
> And there has never been such an operation, thus no support for comparing
> XML objects on the basis of the content rather than the object instance.
>
> -- Scott

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