TypeToString
Type#toString shouldn't be used for comparison as it is expensive and fragile.

Severity
SUGGESTION

The problem

Type#toString shouldn’t be used for Type comparison as it is expensive and fragile.

If this code is within an Error Prone check for comparing Type(s), there are better alternatives available.

Instead of

type.toString().equals("com.package.SomeObject")

use

visitorState.getTypes().isSameType(type, visitorState.getTypeFromString("com.package.SomeObject"))

For primitive types,

type.getKind().equals(TypeKind.INT)

For object type, java {.good} type.getKind().equals(state.getSymtab().objectType)

Suppression

Suppress false positives by adding the suppression annotation @SuppressWarnings("TypeToString") to the enclosing element.