org.corpus_tools.salt.util

Interface Copyable<T>

All Known Subinterfaces:

Identifier, Label, SAbstractAnnotation, SAnnotation, SCatAnnotation, SFeature, SLemmaAnnotation, SMetaAnnotation, SPOSAnnotation, SProcessingAnnotation, SSentenceAnnotation, STypeAnnotation, SWordAnnotation

All Known Implementing Classes:

IdentifierImpl, LabelImpl, SAbstractAnnotationImpl, SAnnotationImpl, SCatAnnotationImpl, SFeatureImpl, SLemmaAnnotationImpl, SMetaAnnotationImpl, SPOSAnnotationImpl, SProcessingAnnotationImpl, SSentenceAnnotationImpl, STypeAnnotationImpl, SWordAnnotationImpl

public interface Copyable<T>

An interface to ensure that an object is copyable. This is an alternative to the Cloneable interface which seems to be very controversial.

Author:

florian

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
T	copy(T other) Takes a new 'empty' object and sets all its fields by copying by value.

Method Detail

copy

T copy(T other)

Takes a new 'empty' object and sets all its fields by copying by value.

Parameters:

surrogate - empty object to be filled

Returns:

returns surrogate