java.util.UUID.equals() Method

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Description

The equals(Object obj) method is used to compare this object to the specified object. The result is true if and only if the argument is not null, is a UUID object and it has the same variant, and contains the same value, bit for bit, as this UUID.

Declaration

Following is the declaration for java.util.UUID.equals() method.

public boolean equals(Object obj)

Parameters

obj − This is the object to be compared with.

Return Value

The method call returns true if the objects are the same otherwise false.

Exception

NA

Example

The following example shows the usage of java.util.UUID.equals()

package com.tutorialspoint;

import java.util.*;

public class UUIDDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {

      // creating two UUIDs      
      UUID u1 = UUID.fromString("38400000-8cf0-11bd-b23e-10b96e4ef00d");
      UUID u2 = UUID.fromString("38400001-8cf0-11bd-b23e-10b96e4ef00d");

      // checking equality
      System.out.println("Is two UUIDs equal: "+u1.equals(u2));    
   }    
}

Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result.

Is two UUIDs equal: false