Scala Design Patterns - Second Edition

The memento design pattern

This pattern provides the ability to roll back an object to its previous state. It is implemented with three objects—originator, caretaker, and memento. The originator is the object with the internal state; the caretaker will modify the originator, and a memento is an object that contains the state that the originator returns. The originator knows how to handle a memento in order to restore its previous state.