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24 * A class to wrap a case insensitive string. For use in collections where we
25 * want to preserve case, but do not want to duplicate upper and lower case
28 public final class CaseInsensitiveString
32 public CaseInsensitiveString(String s)
38 public String toString()
44 * Answers true if the object compared to is a CaseInsensitiveString wrapping
45 * the same string value (ignoring case), or if both wrap a null value, else
49 public boolean equals(Object o)
55 if (!(o instanceof CaseInsensitiveString))
59 CaseInsensitiveString obj = (CaseInsensitiveString) o;
62 return obj.value == null;
64 return value.equalsIgnoreCase(obj.value);
68 * hashCode overriden to guarantee that 'equal' objects have the same hash
74 return value == null ? super.hashCode()
75 : value.toUpperCase().hashCode();