<@U0KBF8D7V> Helper methods to generate these for ...

# announcements

[cedric]

@Paul Woitaschek Helper methods to generate these for you would require reflection, and equals() and hashCode() are not methods where you want to do that. Guava has some helper methods, though: https://gist.github.com/rocketraman/1399080/a50ea2206f6ea4bda65ef00d1f54aab6d654d3bd

[Paul Woitaschek]

Why does it need reflection? That compareTo has helpers too where you can specify a comparision chain

[Paul Woitaschek]

I was thinking about sth like

[Paul Woitaschek]

fun hashCodeOf(vararg elements: Any?): Int {
    var hash = 17
    elements.forEach {
      hash = hash * 31 + (it?.hashCode() ?: 0)
    }
    return hash
  }

[cedric]

@Paul Woitaschek A method that would be able to generically compute hashcode/equals would need to reflect on your class. Guava picked the better approach of offering helper methods you’d use inside your own implementation of equals/hashCode

[Paul Woitaschek]

My function is made to be used inside my own implementation of hashcode.