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I am creating a deep clone for some object. The object contains a Random.
Is it good practice to retrieve the seed from the Random? If so, how? There isn’t a Random.getSeed().
A Random is intended to be random. Usually you want two Random to produce different numbers rather than to produce the same numbers.
You can copy a Random using serialisation/de-serialisation and get the “seed” field using reflection. (But I doubt you should be doing either)
Unless the sequence is critical to you, you can take the view that the clone of a Random is itself or any
new Random()