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public interface Cloneable
This interface should be implemented by classes wishing to
support of override Object.clone()
. The default
behaviour of clone()
performs a shallow copy, but
subclasses often change this to perform a deep copy. Therefore,
it is a good idea to document how deep your clone will go.
If clone()
is called on an object which does not
implement this interface, a CloneNotSupportedException
will be thrown.
This interface is simply a tagging interface; it carries no
requirements on methods to implement. However, it is typical for
a Cloneable class to implement at least equals
,
hashCode
, and clone
, sometimes
increasing the accessibility of clone to be public. The typical
implementation of clone
invokes super.clone()
rather than a constructor, but this is not a requirement.
If an object that implement Cloneable should not be cloned,
simply override the clone
method to throw a
CloneNotSupportedException
.
All array types implement Cloneable, and have a public
clone
method that will never fail with a
CloneNotSupportedException
.
Object.clone()
,
CloneNotSupportedException
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