[OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Review Request for JDK-7107905: ColorModel subclasses are missing hashCode() or equals() or both methods

[Jim Graham]

On 05/31/2016 02:50 PM, Phil Race wrote:
> On 05/31/2016 12:20 PM, Jim Graham wrote:
>> Hi Jay,
>>
>> You were going to remove hashCode/equals from CCM, but instead you
>> simply removed it from the patch.  You still need to edit it to remove
>> the existing methods.
>
> Oh yeah ! CCM is gone from the latest webrev. I expect that was not
> intentional.
>
>>
>> Also, I'm not sure == is a good way to compare ColorSpace instances -
>> Phil?
>
> Neither ColorSpace nor ICC_ColorSpace over-ride equals or hashCode and
> all the predefined ones are constructed as singletons so it seems unlikely
> to cause problems

Should it use .equals() on principle, though?  Otherwise we are baking 
in the assumption that it doesn't implement equals() into our 
implementation of the CM.equals() method.  Might it some day implement 
equals (perhaps it isn't a practical issue today, but it might be in the 
future when we forget that it was omitted in this usage we create today).

I guess what I'm asking is if it is a design feature that different 
objects are considered non-equal (such as an object that, for instance, 
has only predetermined instances that are shared by reference and 
reused).  I think color spaces are sort of in-between in that we define 
a few constants that simply get used by reference in 99% of cases, but 
that isn't a design feature, more like a practical issue...

			...jim