How do I assert equality on two classes without an equals method?

Question

Say I have a class with no equals() method, to which do not have the source. I want to assert equality on two instances of that class.

I can do multiple asserts:

Answer 1

Some of the reflection compare methods are shallow

Another option is to convert the object to a json and compare the strings.

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;    
public static String getJsonString(Object obj) {
 try {
    ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
    return bjectMapper.writerWithDefaultPrettyPrinter().writeValueAsString(obj);
     } catch (JsonProcessingException e) {
        LOGGER.error("Error parsing log entry", e);
        return null;
    }
}
...
assertEquals(getJsonString(MyexpectedObject), getJsonString(MyActualObject))