Updated Draft specs for JEP 359 (Records)

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

On 31/10/2019 16:11, Chris Hegarty wrote:
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>> On 31 Oct 2019, at 15:29, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>> "It is a compile-time error for a record declaration to declare a record component with the name |clone|, |finalize|, |getClass|, |hashCode|, |notify|, |notifyAll|, |readObjectNoData|, |readResolve|, |serialPersistentFields|, |serialVersionUID|, |toString|, |wait|, or |writeReplace|."
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>>> Chris says that the serialization spec ignores all the serialization-related methods if they appear inside a record; should we lift the restrictions?
>> But, I think we later decided we are not ignoring _all_ of the serialization-related methods — that a readResolve() method is OK.
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> FTR
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> For records, the serialization runtime does consider the following:
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>    1) writeReplace(), readResolve(), and
>    2) the serialVersionUID field
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> The serialization runtime ignores the following:
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>    a) writeObject, writeObjectNoData, readObject, and
>    b) serialPersistentFields, and
>    c) writeExternal and readExternal - for what they’re worth!

Ok, so, error on (1) and (2) and warnings in all the other cases?

Maurizio

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> -Chris.