Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one.

The equals method implements an equivalence relation on non-null object references:

• It is reflexive: for any non-null reference value x, x.equals(x) should return true.
• It is symmetric: for any non-null reference values x and y, x.equals(y) should return true if and only if y.equals(x) returns true.
• It is transitive: for any non-null reference values x, y, and z, if x.equals(y) returns true and y.equals(z) returns true, then x.equals(z) should return true.
• It is consistent: for any non-null reference values x and y, multiple invocations of x.equals(y) consistently return true or consistently return false, provided no information used in equals comparisons on the objects is modified.
• For any non-null reference value x, x.equals(null) should return false.

The equals method for class Object implements the most discriminating possible equivalence relation on objects; that is, for any non-null reference values x and y, this method returns true if and only if x and y refer to the same object (x == y has the value true).

Note that it is generally necessary to override the hashCode method whenever this method is overridden, so as to maintain the general contract for the hashCode method, which states that equal objects must have equal hash codes.

The general contract of hashCode is:

• Whenever it is invoked on the same object more than once during an execution of a Java application, the hashCode method must consistently return the same integer, provided no information used in equals comparisons on the object is modified. This integer need not remain consistent from one execution of an application to another execution of the same application.
• If two objects are equal according to the equals(Object) method, then calling the hashCode method on each of the two objects must produce the same integer result.
• It is not required that if two objects are unequal according to the Object.equals(Object) method, then calling the hashCode method on each of the two objects must produce distinct integer results. However, the programmer should be aware that producing distinct integer results for unequal objects may improve the performance of hash tables.

As much as is reasonably practical, the hashCode method defined by class Object does return distinct integers for distinct objects. (This is typically implemented by converting the internal address of the object into an integer, but this implementation technique is not required by the Java™ programming language.)

The local build environment is the one the build execution was started on. It is also known as the coordinator.

If this method returns true, the build execution will not attempt to check remote clusters for suitability. The method can be used if the environment selection is dependent on the local build environment.

The default implementation returns false.

Implementers of this method should determine its results only based on the environment properties of the build environment. Implementations of this interface are required to return these properties in the result object with their corresponding values.

Implicit dependencies will be reported for the qualifier environment properties for the task if the environment is deemed to be suitable.
Note: The implicit dependencies will not be reported for inner tasks.

Implementations cannot use SakerEnvironment.getEnvironmentIdentifier() to deem a given environment suitable. Doing so would make the builds dependent on random numbers, therefore greatly reducing reproducibility. Tasks can select already known environments to execute inner tasks on via setting the allowed environment identifiers of the inner task parameters.

The returned task execution environment selector will check all arguments for suitability.

The returned task execution environment selector will check all arguments for suitability.