not clear with hashcodes

[Lucky J Verma]

I read about hashcode from many books & refernce but atill have confusion.

this i1 & i are 2 different objects but equals() still returns true .
Same thing if do using 2 Objects of same state var ,it shows unequality.

Integer i=new Integer(1);
Integer i1=new Integer(1);
System.out.println("equality "+i.equals(i1));
System.out.println("hashcode "+i.hashCode()+i1.hashCode());
Please explain me how its showing this output.

[ June 26, 2007: Message edited by: Lucky J Verma ]
[ June 26, 2007: Message edited by: Lucky J Verma ]

[Joel McNary]

When I run the code, the hashCodes are the same (1). What version of Java are you using.

Any objects that are .equal() should have the same hashCode; you will run into odd problems using collections if they aren't

[Lucky J Verma]

oh ,i am really sorry i did a typo ..hashcodes are same .But my equals() withInteger sould not be true.i am not really clear. or why it should be true.I am not very clear about it .As for other objects it gives false ,even if state is same.
i will correct my posts .

Thnx

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

java.lang.Integer overrides equals() and hashCode() so that all Integer objects with the same int value are equal, and all have the same hashCode(). That's exactly what you're supposed to do when you override equals() and hashCode().

If equals() never returned true for two different objects, then it wouldn't be necessary -- you could just always use ==. Right?

[Lucky J Verma]

yes,now i got it .
Thanks a lot :-)