CA1066: Implement IEquatable when overriding Equals
Property | Value |
---|---|
Rule ID | CA1066 |
Title | Implement IEquatable when overriding Equals |
Category | Design |
Fix is breaking or non-breaking | Non-breaking |
Enabled by default in .NET 8 | No |
Cause
A value type (struct) overrides Equals method, but does not implement IEquatable<T>.
Rule description
A value type overriding Equals method indicates that it supports comparing two instances of the type for value equality. Consider implementing the IEquatable<T> interface to support strongly typed tests for equality. This ensures that callers performing equality checks invoke the strongly typed System.IEquatable<T>.Equals method and avoid boxing the argument, improving performance. For more information, see here.
Your System.IEquatable<T>.Equals implementation should return results that are consistent with Equals.
How to fix violations
To fix a violation, implement IEquatable<T> and update Equals override to invoke this implemented method. For example, the following two code snippets show a violation of the rule and how to fix it:
public struct S
{
private readonly int _value;
public S(int f)
{
_value = f;
}
public override int GetHashCode()
=> _value.GetHashCode();
public override bool Equals(object other)
=> other is S otherS && _value == otherS._value;
}
using System;
public struct S : IEquatable<S>
{
private readonly int _value;
public S(int f)
{
_value = f;
}
public override int GetHashCode()
=> _value.GetHashCode();
public override bool Equals(object other)
=> other is S otherS && Equals(otherS);
public bool Equals(S other)
=> _value == other._value;
}
When to suppress warnings
It is safe to suppress violations from this rule if the design and performance benefits from implementing the interface are not critical.
Suppress a warning
If you just want to suppress a single violation, add preprocessor directives to your source file to disable and then re-enable the rule.
#pragma warning disable CA1066
// The code that's violating the rule is on this line.
#pragma warning restore CA1066
To disable the rule for a file, folder, or project, set its severity to none
in the configuration file.
[*.{cs,vb}]
dotnet_diagnostic.CA1066.severity = none
For more information, see How to suppress code analysis warnings.