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| author | Jon Skeet <jonskeet@google.com> | 2015-06-23 11:54:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Jon Skeet <jonskeet@google.com> | 2015-06-23 12:42:20 +0100 |
| commit | 6c1fe6ea3e4e3915fc4164c43230210f9a0ac24f (patch) | |
| tree | 3acd6ea7eebd05c6e12958ec3cf901d098ad9b14 /csharp/src/ProtocolBuffers/IMessage.cs | |
| parent | 45b70328f218dc2b3e20191c2cfa92872ef10d04 (diff) | |
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Implement Clone.
Fixes issue #527.
Diffstat (limited to 'csharp/src/ProtocolBuffers/IMessage.cs')
| -rw-r--r-- | csharp/src/ProtocolBuffers/IMessage.cs | 18 |
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/csharp/src/ProtocolBuffers/IMessage.cs b/csharp/src/ProtocolBuffers/IMessage.cs index 9c2a2d85..32dfcaff 100644 --- a/csharp/src/ProtocolBuffers/IMessage.cs +++ b/csharp/src/ProtocolBuffers/IMessage.cs @@ -93,4 +93,22 @@ namespace Google.Protobuf /// <param name="message">The message to merge with this one. Must not be null.</param>
void MergeFrom(T message);
}
+
+ /// <summary>
+ /// Generic interface for a deeply cloneable type.
+ /// <summary>
+ /// <remarks>
+ /// In practice, all generated messages implement this interface.
+ /// However, due to the type constraint on <c>T</c> in <see cref="IMessage{T}"/>,
+ /// it is simpler to keep this as a separate interface.
+ /// </remarks>
+ /// <typeparam name="T">The type itself, returned by the <see cref="Clone"/> method.</typeparam>
+ public interface IDeepCloneable<T>
+ {
+ /// <summary>
+ /// Creates a deep clone of this object.
+ /// </summary>
+ /// <returns>A deep clone of this object.</returns>
+ T Clone();
+ }
}
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