Shallow Copy Deep Copy Java example

Shallow Copy Deep Copy  Java example
Before knowing about Shallow Copy and Deep Copy you need to know about Clonable interface.

Clonable interface -
    Java has a clonable interface for make clone of any object.
    Clonable Interface is a marker interface.
    Clonable Interface has no method.
    Class which implements Clonable interface, JVM give the permission for making the clone of         this class.

Shallow Copy -        
    Clone can be archived by object.clone() method. It gives the Shallow copy of the object. In this process a new object is created That have all the value and instance variable. And if main object has any references to other object then the references are copied in the shallow copy.

Example -

class A implements Cloneable{
   
    A(String personName, Integer age){
        this.personName=personName;
        this.age=age;
    }
    protected Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException {
        return super.clone();
    }
    private String personName = null;
    private transient Integer age = null;
   
    public Integer getAge() {
        return age;
    }
    public String getPersonName() {
        return personName;
    }
}

public class Test{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws CloneNotSupportedException {
        A a = new A("Albar", new Integer(50));
        A a1 = (A)a.clone();
        System.out.println(a1.getPersonName());
    }
}

Deep Copy:-
    Deep Copy of any object can be achieved by write the object into byte stream and again deserialize it. It gives the Deep Copy of the object. Deep copy is a totally duplicate copy of an object.
And if main object has any references to other object then the complete new copies of those objects will be available  in the Deep Copy.

Example to get Deep Copy -

class A implements Serializable{
   
    A(String personName, Integer age){
        this.personName=personName;
        this.age=age;
    }
    protected Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException {
        return super.clone();
    }
    private String personName = null;
    private transient Integer age = null;
   
    public Integer getAge() {
        return age;
    }
    public String getPersonName() {
        return personName;
    }
}

public class Test{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws CloneNotSupportedException {
        try {
            A a = new A("Albar", new Integer(50));
            A deepCopy = null;
            ByteArrayOutputStream bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

            ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(bos);

            out.writeObject(a);
            out.flush();
            out.close();

            ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(bos.toByteArray()));
            Object obj = in.readObject();
            deepCopy = (A)obj;
            System.out.println(deepCopy.getPersonName());
            }
            catch(IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            catch(ClassNotFoundException cnfe) {
                cnfe.printStackTrace();
            }
            }
}