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package org.apache.commons.rng.core;

import java.util.Arrays;

import org.apache.commons.rng.RandomProviderState;

/**
 * Wraps the internal state of a generator instance.
 * Its purpose is to store all the data needed to recover the same
 * state in order to restart a sequence where it left off.
 * External code should not try to modify the data contained in instances
 * of this class.
 *
 * @since 1.0
 */
public class RandomProviderDefaultState implements RandomProviderState {
    /** Internal state. */
    private final byte[] state;

    /**
     * Initializes an instance.
     * The contents of the {@code state} argument is unspecified, and is
     * guaranteed to be valid only if it was generated by implementations
     * provided by this library.
     *
     * @param state Mapping of all the data which an implementation of
     * {@link org.apache.commons.rng.UniformRandomProvider} needs in order
     * to reset its internal state.
     */
    public RandomProviderDefaultState(byte[] state) {
        this.state = Arrays.copyOf(state, state.length);
    }

    /**
     * @return the internal state.
     */
    public byte[] getState() {
        return Arrays.copyOf(state, state.length);
    }
}