RFR: 8274405: Suppress warnings on non-serializable non-transient instance fields in javac and javadoc [v2]

[Pavel Rappo]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 21:13:20 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.
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> Joe Darcy has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains two additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8274405
>  - 8274405: Suppress warnings on non-serializable non-transient instance fields in javac and javadoc

The javadoc changes look good. Hopefully, those Result errors, whose serial warnings this PR suppresses, will go away in JDK-8267690.

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Marked as reviewed by prappo (Reviewer).

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