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package org.jdom2;

/**
 * This simple class just tidies up any cloneable classes. This method deals
 * with any CloneNotSupported exceptions. THis class is package private only.
 * 
 * @author Rolf Lear
 */
class CloneBase implements Cloneable {
	
	/**
	 * Change the permission of the no-arg constructor from public to protcted.
	 * <p>
	 * Otherwise package-private class's constructor is not really public. Changing this to
	 * 'protected' makes this constructor available to all subclasses regardless of the
	 * subclass's package. This in turn makes it possible to make all th subclasses of this
	 * CloneBase class serializable.
	 * 
	 */
	protected CloneBase() {
		// This constructor is needed to solve issue #88
		// There needs to be a no-arg constructor accessible by all
		// potential subclasses of CloneBase, and 'protected' is actually more
		// accessible than 'public' since this is a package-private class.
	}

	/**
	 * Return a deep clone of this instance. Even if this instance has a parent,
	 * the returned clone will not.
	 * <p>
	 * All JDOM core classes are Cloneable, and never throw
	 * CloneNotSupportedException. Additionally all Cloneable JDOM classes
	 * return the correct type of instance from this method and there is no
	 * need to cast the result (co-variant return vaue).
	 * <p>
	 * Subclasses of this should still call super.clone() in their clone method.
	 */
	@Override
	protected CloneBase clone() {
		/*
		 * Additionally, when you use the concept of 'co-variant return values'
		 * you create 'bridge' methods. By way of example, because we change the
		 * return type of clone() from Object to CloneBase, Java is forced to
		 * put in a 'bridge' method that has an Object return type, even though
		 * we never actually call it. <p> This has an impact on the code
		 * coverage tool Cobertura, which reports that there is missed code (and
		 * there is, the bridge method). It reports it as being '0' calls to the
		 * 'class' line (the class line is marked red). By making this CloneBase
		 * code do the first level of co-variant return, it is this class which
		 * is victim of the Cobertura reporting, not the multiple subclasses
		 * (like Attribute, Document, Content, etc.).
		 */
		try {
			return (CloneBase) super.clone();
		} catch (CloneNotSupportedException e) {
			throw new IllegalStateException(String.format(
					"Unable to clone class %s which should always support it.",
					this.getClass().getName()), e);
		}
	}

}
