From 0c6c23076f2c09e863c987923c0af54320adb785 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Henri Yandell <bayard@apache.org>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:40:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Adding a reset() method to EqualsBuilder. LANG-466

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/lang/trunk@890196 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
---
 .../org/apache/commons/lang3/builder/EqualsBuilder.java  | 7 +++++++
 .../apache/commons/lang3/builder/EqualsBuilderTest.java  | 9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/builder/EqualsBuilder.java b/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/builder/EqualsBuilder.java
index af33dde61..9f590ec5a 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/builder/EqualsBuilder.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/commons/lang3/builder/EqualsBuilder.java
@@ -840,4 +840,11 @@ public class EqualsBuilder {
     protected void setEquals(boolean isEquals) {
         this.isEquals = isEquals;
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Reset the EqualsBuilder so you can use the same object again
+     */
+    public void reset() {
+        this.isEquals = true;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/org/apache/commons/lang3/builder/EqualsBuilderTest.java b/src/test/org/apache/commons/lang3/builder/EqualsBuilderTest.java
index 128987190..11e0f7471 100644
--- a/src/test/org/apache/commons/lang3/builder/EqualsBuilderTest.java
+++ b/src/test/org/apache/commons/lang3/builder/EqualsBuilderTest.java
@@ -391,6 +391,15 @@ public class EqualsBuilderTest extends TestCase {
         equalsBuilder.setEquals(false);
         assertFalse(equalsBuilder.isEquals());
     }
+
+    public void testReset() {
+        EqualsBuilder equalsBuilder = new EqualsBuilder();
+        assertTrue(equalsBuilder.isEquals());
+        equalsBuilder.setEquals(false);
+        assertFalse(equalsBuilder.isEquals());
+        equalsBuilder.reset();
+        assertTrue(equalsBuilder.isEquals());
+    }
     
     public void testBoolean() {
         boolean o1 = true;