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author | Éamonn McManus <emcmanus@google.com> | 2023-10-31 12:08:54 -0700 |
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committer | Google Java Core Libraries <java-core-libraries-team+copybara@google.com> | 2023-10-31 12:11:50 -0700 |
commit | 9b8035d654cd4e36e79e1b8329f4457e0f3087f8 (patch) | |
tree | 693fc297f578a3120e13d4d7bddb6e414e30c9ea /guava-testlib/src/com/google/common/testing/EqualsTester.java | |
parent | 609f02920e51d7413dbf5f8b6ee104cc301b53f8 (diff) | |
download | guava-9b8035d654cd4e36e79e1b8329f4457e0f3087f8.tar.gz |
Document why `EqualsTester.addEqualityGroup` has a `@Nullable` parameter.
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diff --git a/guava-testlib/src/com/google/common/testing/EqualsTester.java b/guava-testlib/src/com/google/common/testing/EqualsTester.java index d4484702a..5f02dba84 100644 --- a/guava-testlib/src/com/google/common/testing/EqualsTester.java +++ b/guava-testlib/src/com/google/common/testing/EqualsTester.java @@ -95,6 +95,16 @@ public final class EqualsTester { /** * Adds {@code equalityGroup} with objects that are supposed to be equal to each other and not * equal to any other equality groups added to this tester. + * + * <p>The {@code @Nullable} annotations on the {@code equalityGroup} parameter imply that the + * objects, and the array itself, can be null. That is for programmer convenience, when the + * objects come from factory methods that are themselves {@code @Nullable}. In reality neither the + * array nor its contents can be null, but it is not useful to force the use of {@code + * requireNonNull} or the like just to assert that. + * + * <p>{@code EqualsTester} will always check that every object it is given returns false from + * {@code equals(null)}, so it is neither useful nor allowed to include a null value in any + * equality group. */ @CanIgnoreReturnValue public EqualsTester addEqualityGroup(@Nullable Object @Nullable ... equalityGroup) { |