[API Proposal]: Consider support for IEquatable<Uri> on System.Uri #97940

Edited by @MihaZupan on 2024-02-16

Background and motivation

For a long time, the System.Uri type has provided equality comparison operations via the object.Equals(object?) method and the operator ==() & operator !=() operators. Therefore, there is no reason not to further implement the IEquatable<Uri> interface.

API Proposal

namespace System;

-public partial class Uri : ISpanFormattable, ISerializable
+public partial class Uri : ISpanFormattable, ISerializable, IEquatable<Uri>
{
    // Existing
    public override bool Equals(object? comparand);

+   public bool Equals(Uri? other);
}

API Usage

IEquatable<Uri> a = new Uri("https://example.com/a");
IEquatable<Uri> b = new Uri("https://example.com/b");
Console.WriteLine("Equals? {0}", a.Equals(b));

Alternative Designs

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Risks

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