You can implement any method in an abstract class ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yes but why without

equals

and

hashCode

a default constructor was not created?

Now I'm confused – does a constructor have anything to do with

equals

and

hashCode

?

I don't think so, but it worked. We had an older service with this setup and the only thing I didn't copied from the AbstractEntity was the implementetion for

equals

and

hashCode

, because I thought they were useless since all my entities are gonna be data classes anyway

I'd really like to know what's going on there... Seems ridiculous.

I dont use entities, but a quick search did not reveal anything about needing to implement those methods. Are you sure you didn't actually just miss a default constructor before and added it while you added those methods?

Yes I'm sure

Andrea, I’ve noticed before that adding the noarg plugin (or the spring plugin) doesn’t necessarily regenerate your classes in your IDE. By you adding equals and hashcode, you told your IDE to recompile the class, so you got your noarg constructor through that.