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This program demonstrates cloning
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/*
This program is a part of the companion code for Core Java 8th ed.
(http://horstmann.com/corejava)
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
*/
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.GregorianCalendar;
/**
* This program demonstrates cloning.
* @version 1.10 2002-07-01
* @author Cay Horstmann
*/
public class CloneTest
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
try
{
Employee original = new Employee("John Q. Public", 50000);
original.setHireDay(2000, 1, 1);
Employee copy = original.clone();
copy.raiseSalary(10);
copy.setHireDay(2002, 12, 31);
System.out.println("original=" + original);
System.out.println("copy=" + copy);
}
catch (CloneNotSupportedException e)
{
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
class Employee implements Cloneable
{
public Employee(String n, double s)
{
name = n;
salary = s;
hireDay = new Date();
}
public Employee clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException
{
// call Object.clone()
Employee cloned = (Employee) super.clone();
// clone mutable fields
cloned.hireDay = (Date) hireDay.clone();
return cloned;
}
/**
* Set the hire day to a given date.
* @param year the year of the hire day
* @param month the month of the hire day
* @param day the day of the hire day
*/
public void setHireDay(int year, int month, int day)
{
Date newHireDay = new GregorianCalendar(year, month - 1, day).getTime();
// Example of instance field mutation
hireDay.setTime(newHireDay.getTime());
}
public void raiseSalary(double byPercent)
{
double raise = salary * byPercent / 100;
salary += raise;
}
public String toString()
{
return "Employee[name=" + name + ",salary=" + salary + ",hireDay=" + hireDay + "]";
}
private String name;
private double salary;
private Date hireDay;
}
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