1 protected native Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException;
java中的native關鍵字表示這個方法是個本地方法,【java native說明】。而且native修飾的方法執行效率比非native修飾的高。
一個類在覆蓋clone()方法時候,需要修改成public訪問修飾符,這樣才能保證其他所有的類都能夠訪問這個類的這個方法。
一個類想要覆蓋clone()方法,必須本身實現java.lang.Cloneable接口,否則會拋出CloneNotSupportedException異常。
注:我們這裡的對象特指復雜類型的。
我們知道,java中的復雜類型的對象都是引用類型,他們往往存的都是對象的內存地址。因此我們不能僅僅通過 = 操作符這樣簡單的賦值操作。我們將一個對象a 賦值給另一個對象b ,我們僅僅是將對象a 的內存地址賦值給b ,使得他們兩個對象都是指向的同一個內存地址。這樣的後果是,對其中一個對象的修改之後都會影響到另一個對象。如下圖表示:
1 Person p1 = new Person(); 2 Person p2 = p1;

使用clone()方法,可以快速的創建一個對象的副本,並且兩個對象指向不同的內存地址。如下圖表示:
1 Person p1 = new Person(); 2 Person p2 = p1.clone();

shallow clone是指只clone對象本身,不clone對象裡的字段。只調用super.clone(),只是shallow clone。雖然拷貝之後的對象是指向了不同的內存地址,但是對象裡面的字段還是和之前的對象指向同一個內存地址。
1 public class ShallowClone implements Cloneable {
2
3 public String name;
4 public int age;
5 public Person person;
6
7 public ShallowClone() {
8 }
9
10 public ShallowClone(String name, int age, Person person) {
11 this.name = name;
12 this.age = age;
13 this.person = person;
14 }
15
16 @Override
17 public ShallowClone clone() {
18 ShallowClone c = null;
19 try {
20 c = (ShallowClone) super.clone();
21 return c;
22 } catch (CloneNotSupportedException e) {
23 e.printStackTrace();
24 }
25 return c;
26 }
27
28 public static void main(String[] args) {
29 Person p = new Person();
30 p.name = "p";
31 p.age = 10;
32
33 ShallowClone c1 = new ShallowClone("Jim", 18, p);
34 System.out.printf("before clone: c1 = %s, c1.person = %s\n", c1, c1.person);
35 ShallowClone c2 = c1.clone();
36 System.out.printf("after clone: c2 = %s, c2.person = %s\n", c2, c2.person);
37 }
38 }
運行main()輸出:
before clone: c1 = cre.sample.test.object.ShallowClone@558385e3, c1.person = cre.sample.test.Person@2dcb25f1 after clone: c2 = cre.sample.test.object.ShallowClone@742808b3, c2.person = cre.sample.test.Person@2dcb25f1
說明淺拷貝,ShallowClone對象內存地址改變了,但是對象裡的Person字段內存地址沒有改變;
deep clone則是指在clone對象本身的同時,也clone對象裡面的字段。
1 /**
2 * deep clone代碼示例
3 * Created by CreGu on 2016/6/9.
4 */
5 public class DeepClone implements Cloneable {
6 public String name;
7 public int age;
8 public Person person;
9
10 public DeepClone() {
11 }
12
13 public DeepClone(String name, int age, Person person) {
14 this.name = name;
15 this.age = age;
16 this.person = person;
17 }
18
19 @Override
20 public DeepClone clone() {
21 DeepClone c = null;
22 try {
23 c = (DeepClone) super.clone();
24 c.person = person.clone();
25 return c;
26 } catch (CloneNotSupportedException e) {
27 e.printStackTrace();
28 }
29 return c;
30 }
31
32 public static void main(String[] args) {
33 Person p = new Person();
34 p.name = "p";
35 p.age = 10;
36
37 DeepClone c1 = new DeepClone("Jim", 18, p);
38 System.out.printf("before clone: c1 = %s, c1.person = %s\n", c1, c1.person);
39 DeepClone c2 = c1.clone();
40 System.out.printf("after clone: c2 = %s, c2.person = %s\n", c2, c2.person);
41 }
42 }
運行main()輸出:
before clone: c1 = cre.sample.test.object.DeepClone@558385e3, c1.person = cre.sample.test.Person@2dcb25f1
after clone: c2 = cre.sample.test.object.DeepClone@742808b3, c2.person = cre.sample.test.Person@70535b58
說明深拷貝,DeepClone對象內存地址改變了,但是對象裡的Person字段內存地址也改變了;