1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2015 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,
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15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.krad.datadictionary;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.krad.uif.util.CopyUtils;
19
20 /**
21 * Marks KRAD framework objects that support deep copying.
22 *
23 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
24 */
25 public interface Copyable extends Cloneable {
26
27 /**
28 * Override {@link Object#clone()} to assign the public modifier.
29 * @return {@link Object#clone()}
30 * @throws CloneNotSupportedException If {@link Cloneable} is not implemented. This should not
31 * be possible when using this interface.
32 *
33 * @see CopyUtils#isUseClone() When cloning is enabled, {@link #clone} is used for shallow copy
34 * operations.
35 * @see Cloneable
36 * @see Object#clone()
37 */
38 Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException;
39
40 }