How to compare whether two objects are the same

I have a structure of record type A like this:

{id:

other business field:,

relationships:

record Type2: {

id,

A_id,

other business field

}

recordType3: 

{

id,

A_id,

other business field

}

},

After user change the data, I want to check whether the business field is actually modified. What I thought is to traverse the list of this record and construct new objects using the business field, use the new objects to compare. I want to know is this the only way to solve my problem? Is there any easy way can solve this.

 

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    For detecting business field changes in your record, store the original record when the form loads, then use direct field comparison. Simply compare original.otherBusinessField <> current.otherBusinessField for each business field you care about. This is much more efficient than traversing and reconstructing objects. You can wrap this in a reusable rule that returns true/false for whether any business fields changed.
    For real-time tracking, add change flags in your saveInto parameters. Avoid object reconstruction - direct comparison is faster, simpler, and more maintainable.
    Give it a try..

  • both the original data and new data are list, I want to use symmetricdifference() to compare the original data and the new data, so I try to reconstruct the objects,

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