Implementing clone on a LinkedList
- by devoured elysium
I am trying to implement a clone() method on a DoubleLinkedList. Now, the problem is that implementing it by "the convention" is a lot more troublesome than just creating a new DoubleLinkedList and filling it with all the elements of my current DoubleLinkedList.
Is there any inconvenient I am not seeing when doing that?
Here is my current approach:
@Override
public DoubleLinkedList<T> clone() {
DoubleLinkedList<T> dll = new DoubleLinkedList<T>();
for (T element : dll) {
dll.add(element);
}
return dll;
}
Here is what it would be by the convention:
@Override
public DoubleLinkedList<T> clone() {
try {
DoubleLinkedList<T> dll = (DoubleLinkedList<T>)super.clone();
//kinda complex code to copy elements
return dll;
} catch (CloneNotSupportedException e) {
throw new InternalError(e.toString());
}
}
