Memento

Memento pattern is used to restore state of an object to a previous state.



Memento in Java recognizable by behavioral methods which internally changes the state of the whole instance

• java.util.Date (the setter methods do that, Date is internally represented by a long value)
• All implementations of java.io.Serializable
• All implementations of javax.faces.component.StateHolder

public class Memento {
   private String state;

   public Memento(String state){
      this.state = state;
   }

   public String getState(){
      return state;
   }	
}

public class Originator {
   private String state;

   public void setState(String state){
      this.state = state;
   }

   public String getState(){
      return state;
   }

   public Memento saveStateToMemento(){
      return new Memento(state);
   }

   public void getStateFromMemento(Memento memento){
      state = memento.getState();
   }
}

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class CareTaker {
   private List<Memento> mementoList = new ArrayList<Memento>();

   public void add(Memento state){
      mementoList.add(state);
   }

   public Memento get(int index){
      return mementoList.get(index);
   }
}

public class MementoPatternDemo {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
   
      Originator originator = new Originator();
      CareTaker careTaker = new CareTaker();
      
      originator.setState("State #1");
      originator.setState("State #2");
      careTaker.add(originator.saveStateToMemento());
      
      originator.setState("State #3");
      careTaker.add(originator.saveStateToMemento());
      
      originator.setState("State #4");
      System.out.println("Current State: " + originator.getState());		
      
      originator.getStateFromMemento(careTaker.get(0));
      System.out.println("First saved State: " + originator.getState());
      originator.getStateFromMemento(careTaker.get(1));
      System.out.println("Second saved State: " + originator.getState());
   }
}