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-// Copyright Yahoo. Licensed under the terms of the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE in the project root.
-
-#pragma once
-
-/**
- * @class vespalib::Cloneable
- * @brief Superclass for objects implementing clone() deep copy.
- */
-
-namespace vespalib {
-
-class Cloneable {
-public:
-    /**
-     * @brief Creates a clone of this instance.
-     *
-     * Note that the caller takes ownership of the returned object. It
-     * is not an unique_ptr since that would not support covariant
-     * return types. A class T that inherits this interface should
-     * define T* clone() const, such that people cloning a T object
-     * don't need to cast it to get the correct type.
-     */
-    virtual Cloneable* clone() const = 0;
-    virtual ~Cloneable() = default;
-};
-
-} // namespace vespalib
-