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package org.apache.arrow.vector.util;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;

public class JsonStringArrayList<E> extends ArrayList<E> {

  private static ObjectMapper mapper;

  static {
    mapper = new ObjectMapper();
  }

  @Override
  public boolean equals(Object obj) {
    if (this == obj) {
      return true;
    }
    if (obj == null) {
      return false;
    }
    if (!(obj instanceof List)) {
      return false;
    }
    List<?> other = (List<?>) obj;
    return this.size() == other.size() && this.containsAll(other);
  }

  @Override
  public final String toString() {
    try {
      return mapper.writeValueAsString(this);
    } catch(JsonProcessingException e) {
      throw new IllegalStateException("Cannot serialize array list to JSON string", e);
    }
  }
}