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- //: CheckCloneable.java
- //////////////////////////////////////////////////
- // Copyright (c) Bruce Eckel, 1998
- // Source code file from the book "Thinking in Java"
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- /////////////////////////////////////////////////
-
- // Checking to see if a handle can be cloned
-
- // Can't clone this because it doesn't
- // override clone():
- class Ordinary {}
-
- // Overrides clone, but doesn't implement
- // Cloneable:
- class WrongClone extends Ordinary {
- public Object clone()
- throws CloneNotSupportedException {
- return super.clone(); // Throws exception
- }
- }
-
- // Does all the right things for cloning:
- class IsCloneable extends Ordinary
- implements Cloneable {
- public Object clone()
- throws CloneNotSupportedException {
- return super.clone();
- }
- }
-
- // Turn off cloning by throwing the exception:
- class NoMore extends IsCloneable {
- public Object clone()
- throws CloneNotSupportedException {
- throw new CloneNotSupportedException();
- }
- }
-
- class TryMore extends NoMore {
- public Object clone()
- throws CloneNotSupportedException {
- // Calls NoMore.clone(), throws exception:
- return super.clone();
- }
- }
-
- class BackOn extends NoMore {
- private BackOn duplicate(BackOn b) {
- // Somehow make a copy of b
- // and return that copy. This is a dummy
- // copy, just to make the point:
- return new BackOn();
- }
- public Object clone() {
- // Doesn't call NoMore.clone():
- return duplicate(this);
- }
- }
-
- // Can't inherit from this, so can't override
- // the clone method like in BackOn:
- final class ReallyNoMore extends NoMore {}
-
- public class CheckCloneable {
- static Ordinary tryToClone(Ordinary ord) {
- String id = ord.getClass().getName();
- Ordinary x = null;
- if(ord instanceof Cloneable) {
- try {
- System.out.println("Attempting " + id);
- x = (Ordinary)((IsCloneable)ord).clone();
- System.out.println("Cloned " + id);
- } catch(CloneNotSupportedException e) {
- System.out.println(
- "Could not clone " + id);
- }
- }
- return x;
- }
- public static void main(String[] args) {
- // Upcasting:
- Ordinary[] ord = {
- new IsCloneable(),
- new WrongClone(),
- new NoMore(),
- new TryMore(),
- new BackOn(),
- new ReallyNoMore(),
- };
- Ordinary x = new Ordinary();
- // This won't compile, since clone() is
- // protected in Object:
- //! x = (Ordinary)x.clone();
- // tryToClone() checks first to see if
- // a class implements Cloneable:
- for(int i = 0; i < ord.length; i++)
- tryToClone(ord[i]);
- }
- } ///:~