From 26f495afa7dd942bd2de3165b6c4ff5b409837f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ahmed Tawila <atawila@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:34:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] BAEL-1250 Initializing Arrays in Java

---
 .../src/main/java/com/baeldung/array/ArrayInitializer.java | 7 +++++++
 .../test/java/com/baeldung/array/ArrayInitializerTest.java | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/array/ArrayInitializer.java b/core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/array/ArrayInitializer.java
index fd00c74e7f..7759e282e6 100644
--- a/core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/array/ArrayInitializer.java
+++ b/core-java/src/main/java/com/baeldung/array/ArrayInitializer.java
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ package com.baeldung.array;
 
 import java.util.Arrays;
 
+import org.apache.commons.lang.ArrayUtils;
+
 public class ArrayInitializer {
 
     public static int[] initializeArrayInLoop() {
@@ -71,4 +73,9 @@ public class ArrayInitializer {
         }
         return array;
     }
+    
+    public static char[] initializeArrayUsingArraysUtilClone() {
+        char[] array = new char[] {'a', 'b', 'c'};
+        return ArrayUtils.clone(array);
+    }
 }
diff --git a/core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/array/ArrayInitializerTest.java b/core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/array/ArrayInitializerTest.java
index d3afad7b00..6826a5186b 100644
--- a/core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/array/ArrayInitializerTest.java
+++ b/core-java/src/test/java/com/baeldung/array/ArrayInitializerTest.java
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import static com.baeldung.array.ArrayInitializer.initializeArrayRangeUsingArray
 import static com.baeldung.array.ArrayInitializer.initializeArrayUsingArraysCopy;
 import static com.baeldung.array.ArrayInitializer.initializeArrayUsingArraysFill;
 import static com.baeldung.array.ArrayInitializer.initializeArrayUsingArraysSetAll;
+import static com.baeldung.array.ArrayInitializer.initializeArrayUsingArraysUtilClone;
 import static com.baeldung.array.ArrayInitializer.initializeLargerArrayUsingArraysCopy;
 import static com.baeldung.array.ArrayInitializer.initializeMultiDimensionalArrayInLoop;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertArrayEquals;
@@ -65,4 +66,8 @@ public class ArrayInitializerTest {
     public void whenInitializeLargerArrayRangeUsingArraysSetAll_thenCorrect() {
         assertArrayEquals(new int[] { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 }, initializeArrayUsingArraysSetAll());
     }
+
+    public void whenInitializeArrayUsingArraysUtilClone_thenCorrect() {
+        assertArrayEquals(new char[] { 'a', 'b', 'c' }, initializeArrayUsingArraysUtilClone());
+    }
 }