How to merge two objects in java

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• How to merge two objects in java

Sometimes we come to situation where we want to add same type of objects together to add all fields of objects together. Here we will see how to merge two objects in java.

How to merge two objects in java

Please follow the following steps to know hpw to merge two ob in java.
1)First create simple java or maven project.

2)Now create a pojo class some fields which is shown below

3)Now will merge two same object to create a resultant object which is shown below.
We will merge two objects of same type

The java code to merge two objects is given below

import java.lang.reflect.Field;
public class mainDriver {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Person person = new Person();
        person.setFirstName("john");
        person.setCollegeName("MIT");
        Person newPerson = new Person();
        newPerson.setLastName("dow");
        Person result= mergeObjects(person, newPerson);
        System.out.println(result.getFirstName());
        System.out.println(result.getLastName());
        System.out.println(result.getCollegeName());
    }

    public static <T> T mergeObjects(T first, T second){
        Class<?> clas = first.getClass();
        Field[] fields = clas.getDeclaredFields();
        Object result = null;
        try {
            result = clas.getDeclaredConstructor().newInstance();
            for (Field field : fields) {
                field.setAccessible(true);
                Object value1 = field.get(first);
                Object value2 = field.get(second);
                Object value = (value1 != null) ? value1 : value2;
                field.set(result, value);
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return (T) result;
    }
}

4)Once you run the above code you will see following kind of output which is shown below