1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2014 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.krad.uif.util;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary.Copyable;
19
20 /**
21 * Extends the {@link Cloneable} interface to mark UIF objects that can be cloned, rather than
22 * constructed, for faster copying.
23 *
24 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
25 * @deprecated The {@link #clone} method has been added to {@link Copyable}. This interface is now
26 * redundant, but is still used on a small scale for special handling in
27 * {@link CloneUtils}.
28 */
29 public interface UifCloneable extends Cloneable {
30
31 /**
32 * Override {@link Object#clone()} is overridden to assign the public modifier.
33 *
34 * @return {@link Object#clone()}
35 * @throws CloneNotSupportedException if {@link Cloneable} is not implemented. This should not
36 * be possible when using this interface.
37 */
38 Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException;
39
40 }