Overriding Equals

[Wesley]

If I want to override equals in my persistent classes to simply compare primary keys

1) is there already some kind of static method or helper class somewhere that does this in OpenAccess

2) if not, how do I get at the object ids if I had Telerik ORM handle the Ids for me (forward mapping)?

Thanks

[Chris]

I haven't tested this code, but something along these lines should work:

  Public Shared Operator =(ByVal a As Category, _
                                          ByVal b As Category) As Integer
        Dim result As Boolean = False
        'Get OID for object A
        Dim oidA As IObjectId = scope.GetObjectId(a)
        Dim oidB As IObjectId = scope.GetObjectId(b)
        If oidA Is oidB Then result = True
        Return result
    End Operator

I'm not sure about the exact C# syntax, but it should be equally easy.  Note that you do need the scope.
It should just be a matter of basic operator overloading.  You could, of course, stick this in an extention method if you really wanted to.

Let me know if that doesn't work.

[Chris]

oops, that should be a boolean. 

[Chris]

You could also create multiple extension methods that would allow you test for multiple types of equality.