CSHARP.COMPARE.CTO.ASSYM : Asymmetric compareTo (C#)

A class C that implements the raw interface System.IComparable must implement the CompareTo(Object) method. If C is made to implement the non-raw interface System.IComparable<C>, then it must implement the CompareTo(C) method instead.

Moreover, it is good practice to make CompareTo() consistent with Equals(): if the comparison of two objects yields 0, then they should be equal. The validity of this implication is in general undecidable. There are, however, frequent situations when, typically, this implication does not hold. An example is when Equals() is inherited from System.Object.

This checker verifies that CompareTo(Object) is defined for classes implementing the raw System.IComparable interface, instead of the (possibly more logical) method CompareTo(C). Moreover, it verifies the consistency of CompareTo() wrt Equals().

Inconsistent definitions of CompareTo()/Equals() induce unexpected behaviors when objects are put inside most sorted collection classes of the standard .NET library.

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例

using System;

namespace DocumentationExamples
{

    public abstract class CompareTo : IComparable<CompareTo>
    {
        private static int nextId;
        private readonly int id = nextId++;
        int IComparable<CompareTo>.CompareTo(CompareTo other)               // compareTo without equals (C#) warning issued here
        {
            return id - other.id;
        }
    }
    public class CompareToA : CompareTo
    {
        public static void Main(string[] args)
        { }

        private readonly string name;
        public CompareToA(string name)
        {
            this.name = name;
        }
    }
    public sealed class CompareToVsEquals : IComparable<CompareToVsEquals>
    {
        private readonly int f;
        public CompareToVsEquals(int f)
        {
            this.f = f;
        }
        int IComparable<CompareToVsEquals>.CompareTo(CompareToVsEquals o)   // Two warnings issued here: 
                                                                            // - compareTo without equals (C#)
                                                                            // - Asymmetric compareTo (C#)
        {
            if (f > 0)
                return -1;
            else
                return 0;
        }
        public override string ToString()
        {
            return f.ToString();
        }
    }
    public sealed class CompareToVsEquals2 : IComparable<CompareToVsEquals2>
    {
        private int f;
        public CompareToVsEquals2(int f)
        {
            this.f = f;
        }
        int IComparable<CompareToVsEquals2>.CompareTo(CompareToVsEquals2 o) // compareTo/equals mismatch (C#) warning issued here
        {
            if (this == o || Equals(o))
                return 1;
            else
                return -1;
        }
        public override bool Equals(object other)
        {
            return other is CompareToVsEquals2 && ((CompareToVsEquals2)other).f == f;
        }
        public override string ToString()
        {
            return f.ToString();
        }
        public override int GetHashCode()
        {
            return f.GetHashCode();
        }
    }
}

解決法

Use the non-raw interface System.IComparable<C>; make Equals() consistent with CompareTo(). In most cases, this just amounts to providing the missing definition of Equals().

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