How to ensure hashCode() is consistent with equals()?

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It doesn’t say the hashcode for an object has to be completely unique, only that the hashcode for two equal objects returns the same hashcode. It’s entirely legal to have two non-equal objects return the same hashcode. However, the more unique a hashcode distribution is over a set of objects, the better performance you’ll get out of HashMaps and other operations that use the hashCode.

IDEs such as IntelliJ Idea have built-in generators for equals and hashCode that generally do a pretty good job at coming up with “good enough” code for most objects (and probably better than some hand-crafted overly-clever hash functions).

For example, here’s a hashCode function that Idea generates for your People class:

public int hashCode() {
    int result = name != null ? name.hashCode() : 0;
    result = 31 * result + age;
    return result;
}

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