Boolean.TRUE == myBoolean vs. Boolean.TRUE.equals(myBoolean)

Question

Is there ever a situation where using equals(Boolean) and == would return different results when dealing with Boolean objects?

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Answer 1

== only works for primitive types
when you compare Objects you should always use o.equls(Object ob)

Answer 2

How about:

System.out.println(new Boolean(true) == new Boolean(true));
System.out.println(new Boolean(true) == Boolean.TRUE);

(both print false, for the same reason as any other type of objects).

Answer 3

It would be dangerous to use == because myBoolean may not have originated from one of the constants, but have been constructed as new Boolean(boolValue), in which case == would always result in false. You can use just

myBoolean.booleanValue()

with neither == nor equals involved, giving reliable results. If you must cater for null-values as well, then there's nothing better than your equals approach.

Answer 4

if (Boolean.TRUE == new Boolean(true)) {
    System.out.println("==");
}

if (Boolean.TRUE.equals(myBoolean)) {
    System.out.println("equals");
}

In this case first one is false. Only second if condition is true.

It Prints:

equals