feat: enhance deepEquals method to support dot-notation for excluded keys

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📝 Description

Resolves #50

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🔄 Type of Change

• ✨ New feature — non-breaking change that adds functionality

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✅ Pre-Merge Checklist

Code Quality

• My code follows the Palantir Java Format style (passes mvn spotless:check)
• I have added or updated Javadoc on public types and methods

Tests

• I have added unit tests that cover the new / changed behaviour
• All existing and new tests pass locally (mvn verify)
• JaCoCo line coverage ≥ 70 % is maintained
• Tests using Testcontainers are isolated and do not leave containers running

Licensing

• Apache 2.0 license header has been added to every new source file (using spotless)

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[Unreleased]

♻️ Refactoring

• Remove date content-sniffing and implement type-driven date comparison — @nil-malh

✨ Features

• Switched to centralised GH Actions — @nil-malh

• Enhance deepEquals method to support dot-notation for excluded keys

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🔄 Run #134 · Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:28:27 GMT

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✅ Test Results

	Metric	Count
✅	Passed	674
❌	Failed	0
⏭️	Skipped	0
📊	Total	674

✅ Coverage

	Type	Coverage	Covered / Total
📏	Lines	83.4%	1760 / 2111
🌿	Branches	72.8%	544 / 747
🔧	Methods	84.0%	367 / 437

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🔄 CI run #153 · Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:31:06 GMT