[FLINK-37788] Use Java 17 instanceof pattern matching in equals() method in Flink Core…

[pranav234]

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What is the purpose of the change

Refractor equals() method in different classes to use Java 17 pattern matching capabilities of Java 17 instance of operator

Verifying this change

This change is a trivial rework / code cleanup without any test coverage.

Does this pull request potentially affect one of the following parts:

• Dependencies (does it add or upgrade a dependency): no
• The public API, i.e., is any changed class annotated with @Public(Evolving): No
• The serializers: (yes / no / don't know) No
• The runtime per-record code paths (performance sensitive): (yes / no / don't know) No
• Anything that affects deployment or recovery: JobManager (and its components), Checkpointing, Kubernetes/Yarn, ZooKeeper: (yes / no / don't know) No
• The S3 file system connector: (yes / no / don't know) No

Documentation

• Does this pull request introduce a new feature? no
• If yes, how is the feature documented? (not applicable / docs / JavaDocs / not documented) not applicable

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CI report:

• af8fa9ea8d5aec59ede47e342690ba934ec59775 Azure: FAILURE

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[pranav234]

@flinkbot run azure

[pranav234]

ping @rmetzger @davidradl

[snuyanzin]

I wonder how it will work with jdk11 which is still used for nightly https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/4a77e9d959a4d78bd6075f7d7fe491b479cb4a69/tools/azure-pipelines/build-apache-repo.yml#L103-L110

[davidradl]

the CI FAILURE looks like a a checkstyle issue.

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