[rules-users] Comparing KnowledgePackages for Equality

[Wolfgang Laun]

Comparing the bytes of the serialized byte stream should be better than
an identity compare, although it isn't a true equals.
-W

On 20/03/2013, gqmulligan <gqmulligan at gmail.com> wrote:
> If I wanted to compare two knowledge packages to find out if they are the
> "same" how would I do so?
> More specifically if I deserialize the same knowledge package twice how can
> I compare the two in a way that will return true signifying they are the
> same?
>
> Using the equals method will not work since that simply does identity
> comparisons.  This is causing big problems for me right now because
> hibernate always thinks packages are dirty and is constantly updating them
> to the database when they do not need to be.
>
> Any suggestions are much appreciated as this has become an urgent issue.
> Thanks.
>
>
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