Linked Data Structures - Java - page 776

Display 15.15 A PubliclyCloneable Class (part 2 of 2)

19 public void setName(String newName)

20 {

21 name = newName;

22 }

23 public String toString( )

24 {

25 return (name + " " + number);

26 }

27 public Object clone( )

28 {

29 try

30 {

31 return super .clone( );

32 }

33 catch (CloneNotSupportedException e)

34 { //This should not happen.

35 return null ; //To keep compiler happy.

36 }

37 }

38

39 public boolean equals(Object otherObject)

40 {

41 if (otherObject == null )

42 return false ;

43 else if (getClass( ) != otherObject.getClass( ))

44 return false ;

45 else

46 {

47 StockItem otherItem = (StockItem) otherObject;

48 return (name.equalsIgnoreCase(otherItem.name)

49 && number == otherItem.number);

50 }

51 }

52 }