Thread: Noobie equals() problem.

Alright, I'm not gonna' lie. This is probably a silly problem for all you veterans, but I'm very (VERY) fresh in the art of Java code-writing, so forgive the noobishness.

I'm writing an equals()-method for my program which looks like this:

  public boolean equals(Object objekt) {
    Pasientjournal middlertidig = (Pasientjournal)objekt;
    if (this.getID() == middlertidig.getID())
      return true;
    else
      return false;
  }

But whenever i try to actually compare anything i get tossed a:

java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.Integer cannot be cast to Pasientjournal
	at Pasientjournal.equals(Pasientjournal.java:35)
...
...
...

Now, like i said, I'm rather fresh here, so could someone toss me a short explanation of what's wrong?

Or maybe just toss me the correct version of my faulty code?

("middlertidig" is btw just my native tongue for "temporary")

Thanks so much for the help guys!

Pasientjournal middlertidig = (Pasientjournal)objekt;

You are passing it an int or Integer apparently as a parameter to that method.

Your function definition seems to accept Object as a parameter and exception shows that you are passing Integer.
See it closely or post your code here so that we could have a look over it.
But kindly before posting code read SSCCE

I read the API carefully and managed to detect my own problem, so the code functional. For now at least.

Thanks have been given to everyone who helped me!

@ViRAL: You are always welcome to ask for help but you must need to know the rules. As these are really important to save your time and ours as well.
You must read SSCCE as mentioned in my above post.
Hope you will contribute here as a helping member for others to.
Good Luck.