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package org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.startupprogress;

import org.apache.hadoop.classification.InterfaceAudience;

/**
 * Abstract base of internal data structures used for tracking progress.  For
 * primitive long properties, {@link Long#MIN_VALUE} is used as a sentinel value
 * to indicate that the property is undefined.
 */
@InterfaceAudience.Private
abstract class AbstractTracking implements Cloneable {
  long beginTime = Long.MIN_VALUE;
  long endTime = Long.MIN_VALUE;

  /**
   * Subclass instances may call this method during cloning to copy the values of
   * all properties stored in this base class.
   * 
   * @param dest AbstractTracking destination for copying properties
   */
  protected void copy(AbstractTracking dest) {
    dest.beginTime = beginTime;
    dest.endTime = endTime;
  }
}