equals

operator override fun equals(other: Any?): Boolean

Returns true if the other object is an instance of EmailAddress and has the same string representation as this email address, or returns false otherwise.


Calling from Kotlin

Here's an example of calling this function from Kotlin code:

val value: Any = "[email protected]"
val first: EmailAddress = EmailAddress.fromString(value)
val second: EmailAddress = EmailAddress.fromString(value)
val result: Boolean = first == second // or first.equals(second)
println(result) // true

Calling from Java

Here's an example of calling this function from Java code:

final Object value = "[email protected]";
final EmailAddress first = EmailAddress.fromString(value);
final EmailAddress second = EmailAddress.fromString(value);
final boolean result = first.equals(second);
System.out.println(result); // true