Name: sdC67446 Date: 09/22/98


There is inconsistency in the behaviour of equals(DataFlavor) and
equals(String). These methods return different value for identical
input param. In detail, equals(String) ignores 'representationClass'
definition.

The doc says:
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public boolean equals(DataFlavor dataFlavor)

      Returns:
            if the DataFlavors represent the same type.

public boolean equals(java.lang.String s)

      Returns:
            if the String (MimeType) is equal

The test:
-----------------Test.java------------------------
import java.awt.datatransfer.*;

public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String sampleMimeType1 = "application/postscript;class=java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor";
        String sampleMimeType2 = "application/postscript;class=java.awt.datatransfer.Clipboard";
DataFlavor df1 = null;
DataFlavor df2 = null;
try {
df1 = new DataFlavor(sampleMimeType1);
df2 = new DataFlavor(sampleMimeType2);
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
System.out.println("unexpected exception: "+e);
}
System.out.println(df1.equals(df2));
System.out.println(df1.equals(sampleMimeType2));
    }
}
---------Output-----------------------------------
false
true
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