// Act
        MIEName parsed = new MIEName(buf);

        // Assert
        // equals should match case-insensitively for name and equal OID
        MIEName expected = new MIEName(testOid(), name);
        assertEquals(expected, parsed, "Parsed object should equal expected");
        assertEquals(name, parsed.toString(), "toString should return the name");

  public static Equivalence<Object> identity() {
    return Identity.INSTANCE;
  }

  static final class Equals extends Equivalence<Object> implements Serializable {

    static final Equals INSTANCE = new Equals();

    @Override
    protected boolean doEquivalent(Object a, Object b) {
      return a.equals(b);
    }

    @Override
    protected int doHash(Object o) {
      return o.hashCode();
    }

          ? uncheckedCastNullableTToT(result)
          : defaultValue;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(@Nullable Object o) {
      if (o instanceof ForMapWithDefault) {
        ForMapWithDefault<?, ?> that = (ForMapWithDefault<?, ?>) o;
        return map.equals(that.map) && Objects.equals(defaultValue, that.defaultValue);
      }
      return false;
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {

     * Equality is determined by the wrapped factory.
     * @param obj The object to compare.
     * @return true if equal, false otherwise.
     */
    @Override
    public boolean equals(final Object obj) {
        return factory.equals(obj);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a string representation of this wrapper.
     * @return A string representation.
     */
    @Override

   * Compares the specified object to this multimap for equality.
   *
   * <p>Two {@code SetMultimap} instances are equal if, for each key, they contain the same values.
   * Equality does not depend on the ordering of keys or values.
   */
  @Override
  public boolean equals(@Nullable Object object) {
    return super.equals(object);
  }

  }

  @Override
  public final boolean equals(@Nullable Object obj) {
    if (obj instanceof Subscriber) {
      Subscriber that = (Subscriber) obj;
      // Use == so that different equal instances will still receive events.
      // We only guard against the case that the same object is registered
      // multiple times
      return target == that.target && method.equals(that.method);
    }
    return false;
  }

    }

    /**
     * Returns whether two strings are equal. If both are null, returns <code>true</code>.
     *
     * @param target1
     *            the first string
     * @param target2
     *            the second string
     * @return true if the strings are equal, false otherwise
     */
    public static boolean equals(final String target1, final String target2) {

     * represent the same element and count. That is, two entries {@code a} and {@code b} are equal
     * if:
     *
     * {@snippet :
     * Objects.equals(a.getElement(), b.getElement())
     *     && a.getCount() == b.getCount()
     * }
     */
    @Override
    // TODO(kevinb): check this wrt TreeMultiset?
    boolean equals(@Nullable Object o);

    /**
     * {@inheritDoc}
     *

   * example, {@code [] < [1] < [1, 2] < [2]}.
   *
   * <p>The returned comparator is inconsistent with {@link Object#equals(Object)} (since arrays
   * support only identity equality), but it is consistent with {@link Arrays#equals(int[], int[])}.
   *
   * @since 2.0
   */
  public static Comparator<int[]> lexicographicalComparator() {
    return LexicographicalComparator.INSTANCE;
  }

   * identical inputs: This sounds like it ought to be a problem here, since the goals of this class
   * include testing that {@code equals()} is reflexive and is tolerant of {@code null}. However,
   * there's no problem. The reason: {@link EqualsTester} tests {@code null} and identical inputs
   * directly against {@code equals()} rather than through the {@code Equivalence}.
   */
  private final Equivalence<? super T> equivalence;