How do you make a deep copy of an object?

Question

It\'s a bit difficult to implement a deep object copy function. What steps you take to ensure the original object and the cloned one share no reference?

Answer 1

1)

public static Object deepClone(Object object) {
   try {
     ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
     ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(baos);
     oos.writeObject(object);
     ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(baos.toByteArray());
     ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(bais);
     return ois.readObject();
   }
   catch (Exception e) {
     e.printStackTrace();
     return null;
   }
 }

2)

    // (1) create a MyPerson object named Al
    MyAddress address = new MyAddress("Vishrantwadi ", "Pune", "India");
    MyPerson al = new MyPerson("Al", "Arun", address);

    // (2) make a deep clone of Al
    MyPerson neighbor = (MyPerson)deepClone(al);

Here your MyPerson and MyAddress class must implement serilazable interface