RFR: 8274405: Suppress warnings on non-serializable non-transient instance fields in javac and javadoc

[Pavel Rappo]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2021 00:07:16 GMT, Joe Darcy <darcy at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Augmentations to javac's Xlint:serial checking are out for review (#5709) and various javac and javadoc implementation libraries would need some changes to pass under the expanded checks.
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> The changes are to suppress warnings where non-transient fields in serializable types are not declared with a type statically known to be serializable. That isn't necessarily a correctness issues, but it does merit further scrutiny.
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> I'll run a script to update the copyright year before pushing.
> 
> Sending this change out for review separately in an effort to de-bulk the review needed for the new checks themselves.

Is there any semantic difference between "not statically Serilizable" and "not a Serilizable type"? Also, there's a typo: Seri-a-lizable.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5728