Re: Easy cloning leaving out selected attributes

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But isn't that the point of cloning? If you want an object to have default attributes then just make a new one.

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Re^2: Easy cloning leaving out selected attributes by mzedeler (Pilgrim) on Apr 17, 2012 at 11:31 UTC
The point is that some (few) attributes should never be cloned, while others should. In this case, I have some objects that are stored through KioukuDB, and it never makes sense that they get the same id as the original object. I have a role that provides default ids, so it would be nice to have the clone method default to that. Another thing I need to differentiate is between some attributes that should be shallow clones and others that should be deep clones (using the clone() method on them, of course).	[reply]

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Re^2: Easy cloning leaving out selected attributes
by mzedeler (Pilgrim) on Apr 17, 2012 at 11:31 UTC

The point is that some (few) attributes should never be cloned, while others should. In this case, I have some objects that are stored through KioukuDB, and it never makes sense that they get the same id as the original object.

I have a role that provides default ids, so it would be nice to have the clone method default to that.

Another thing I need to differentiate is between some attributes that should be shallow clones and others that should be deep clones (using the clone() method on them, of course).

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