Ignoring properties from within a map difference

[opop]

Hi and thanks for sharing this great tool.
I am trying to diff an object with circular dependency -

class ToCompare
{
    Map<Integer, A> myMap;
}

class A
{
    .... some interesting properties to comapre...

    private MyList listObject;
}

class MyList
{
    MyList next;
    MyList prev;
}

The problem is, I'm not diffing two objects of type A but two MAPs of objects of type A.

the messages I get from object-diff look like this:
Detected circular reference in node at path /myMap{39}/listObject/prev/prev/next. Going deeper would cause an infinite loop, so I'll stop looking at this instance along the current path.
I get a lot of lines like this.

I try to use configuration.withoutProperty(PropertyPath.buildWith("myMap", "listObject"));
and it doesn't work. since listObject is not a property of myMap - I need to gain access to the actual values of myMap.

Do you happen to have any solution to this?

Thanks.

[SQiShER]

I think you could solve the problem by ignoring the 'prev' property. This way, you wouldn't have a circular reference. The easiest way to do this is via @ObjectDiffProperty(ignore = true) annotation.

[opop]

Thanks SQiShER 👍
I was hoping to do it without exposing my internal object library to ObjectDiffProperty, but that did the trick :-)

Cheers.

[SQiShER]

Good to know that there is demand for this. I'll keep it in mind when I start working on the new configuration API I have in mind.