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* 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).
*
* 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.
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);
}
}
}