No DeepCopy on Collections

[mustii82]

Hi under a DeepCopy my Understandig is that even the members should be deepcopys but in this Code:

val speaker = Speaker("Benny Huo", arrayListOf(1, 2, 3, 4))
    val talk = Talk("DataClass in Action", speaker)
    val newTalk = talk.deepCopy()

    talk.speaker.arrayList.removeAt(0)

    println(talk)
    println(newTalk)

The list will change on both Objects

[bennyhuo]

Yes, you're right. Only data class annotated by @DeepCopy will be handled with deepCopy method.

[bennyhuo]

Element type in collections could be any type which may not be designed to be deep copied or even copied.
Maybe we should seek a way to copy collections with a generic data class type.

[bennyhuo]

Try the new branch v1.3. Use bunch of reflections to do the collection deep copy.

[mustii82]

will the objects inside a collection also be deep copied?

[bennyhuo]

will the objects inside a collection also be deep copied?

If the type of the element is Collection or data class annotated with DeepCopy, it will be deep copied.