How to find difference between cloned object and orignal object in java?

Question

I am doing deep cloning. I am not considering some components of objects while cloning since it's contains lot of elements. Now there is some code which uses that object , my code is failing because it needs some specific fields for working but they may not be there in clonned object.

Wondering, if there is any shortcut for detecting change

Answer 1

You can dump the two variations using XMLEncoder and compare the text. e.g. using windiff or you favourite diffing program.