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Can we write an interface without any methods in java?
Yes, you can write an interface without any methods. These are known as marking interfaces or, tagging interfaces.
A marker interface i.e. it does not contain any methods or fields by implementing these interfaces a class will exhibit a special behavior with respect to the interface implemented.
Example
Consider the following example, here we have class with name Student which implements the marking interface Cloneable. In the main method we are trying to create an object of the Student class and clone it using the clone() method.
import java.util.Scanner;
public class Student implements Cloneable {
int age;
String name;
public Student (String name, int age){
this.age = age;
this.name = name;
}
public void display() {
System.out.println("Name of the student is: "+name);
System.out.println("Age of the student is: "+age);
}
public static void main (String args[]) throws CloneNotSupportedException {
Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Enter your name: ");
String name = sc.next();
System.out.println("Enter your age: ");
int age = sc.nextInt();
Student obj = new Student(name, age);
Student obj2 = (Student) obj.clone();
obj2.display();
}
}Output
Enter your name: Krishna Enter your age: 29 Name of the student is: Krishna Age of the student is: 29
In this case the cloneable interface does not have any members, you need to implement this just to mark or tag the class indicating that its objects are cloneable. If we do not implement this interface you cannot use the clone method of the Object class.
If you Still try, it throws a java.lang.CloneNotSupportedException exception.
Example
In the following Java program, we are trying to use the clone() method of the Object class without implementing the Cloneable interface.
import java.util.Scanner;
public class Student{
int age;
String name;
public Student (String name, int age){
this.age = age;
this.name = name;
}
public void display() {
System.out.println("Name of the student is: "+name);
System.out.println("Age of the student is: "+age);
}
public static void main (String args[]) throws CloneNotSupportedException {
Student obj = new Student("Krishna", 29);
Student obj2 = (Student) obj.clone();
obj2.display();
}
}Run time Exception
This program gets compiled successfully but, while executing it raises a runtime exception as −
Output
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.CloneNotSupportedException: Student at java.base/java.lang.Object.clone(Native Method) at Student.main(Student.java:15)
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