Locations not the same?

I am working on a plugin which requires that the config check to see if a sign's location is in the config. The sign's location is in the config but for some reason it returns false...
Code to check the locations and log info for testing:

Code:java

Location loc = new Location(Bukkit.getServer().getWorld(Main.Signs.getConfig().getString(s + ".World")),
                    Main.Signs.getConfig().getDouble(s + ".X"),
                    Main.Signs.getConfig().getDouble(s + ".Y"),
                    Main.Signs.getConfig().getDouble(s + ".Z"));
            Main.getPlugin().getLogger().severe("Config: " + loc.toString());
            Main.getPlugin().getLogger().severe("Sign: " + block.getLocation().toString());
            if (loc == block.getLocation()){
                Main.getPlugin().getLogger().severe("TRUE");
            bool = true;
            }

In the console:

Code:

07.08 17:30:33 [Server] INFO [17:30:33 ERROR]: [TNT_Wars] Sign: Location{world=CraftWorld{name=world},x=-127.0,y=68.0,z=188.0,pitch=0.0,yaw=0.0}
07.08 17:30:33 [Server] INFO [17:30:33 ERROR]: [TNT_Wars] Config: Location{world=CraftWorld{name=world},x=-127.0,y=68.0,z=188.0,pitch=0.0,yaw=0.0}

As you can see the locations are the exact same, yet it still returns false... If you know what the issue si I'd love to hear it. Any help is greatly appreciated thanks!

 

The Fancy Whale Don't use == to compare non-primitives. Also, comparing Locations using Location#equals() uses extreme precision, so I'd recommend you compare the block x/y/z 's of each (location#getBlockX()/getBlockY()/getBlockZ())

 

The == operator is used for memory address comparisons, while the equals(Object) method is used for logical comparisons. These logical comparisons can be implemented differently by every single class. So use #equals instead of the == operator, since you don't want to compare memory addresses, but want to test their logical equivalency.

 

As stated above, the == operator compares the memory address of the object, as Java stores all objects by reference. Only primitive types and enum constants should be compared by ==. Everything else should be compared by equals(), because there is no guarantee that the two similar objects are in fact the same object and not just twins.

For locations, equals() is fine. Do know though that locations are compared with great precision and you may not always want to be comparing locations directly. For CraftBukkit, comparing locations is generally safe for block locations.