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A library of utilities for serialization and wrapping of arbitrary objects to have correctly implemented "equals" and "hashCode" methods.

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package edu.utdallas.objectutils;

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import static edu.utdallas.objectutils.Commons.newAddress;

/**
 * Base class for all non-primitive objects: arrays and proper objects
 *
 * @author Ali Ghanbari ([email protected])
 */
public abstract class AbstractWrappedReference implements Wrapped {
    protected final int address;

    protected AbstractWrappedReference() {
        this.address = newAddress();
    }

    @Override
    public int getAddress() {
        return this.address;
    }

    /**
     * A method useful for getting the name of the underlying type
     * when the wrapped class is not available in the classpath.
     *
     * @return The name of the underlying wrapped type.
     * @since 1.1
     */
    public abstract String getTypeName();
}