Serial warnings in java.util.ArrayPrefixHelpers

[Joseph Darcy]

On 2/19/2014 12:16 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> The jsr166 CVS version of this file already has serialVersionUIDs added.
> jsr166 CVS src/main has been jdk8/jdk9 warning-clean for a while now.

Thanks for the update Martin; looking forward to the next sync to get 
rid of a few more warnings :-)

-Joe

>
> http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/jsr166/src/main/java/util/ArrayPrefixHelpers.java?view=markup
>
> yeah, we need to do a better job of down-streaming...
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Joe Darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com 
> <mailto:joe.darcy at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     The file java.util.ArrayPrefixHelpers seems to be part of the
>     166-alpha set of files in the JDK.
>
>     There are a number of package-private static final and
>     serializable classes in this file which neither define
>     serialVersionUIDs nor have a @SuppressWarnings("serial")
>     annotation. So, this file adds a number of serial warnings to the
>     JDK and efforts are underway to clear the jdk repo of serial
>     warnings, which are mostly in the client area:
>
>             JDK-8032976: Fix serial lint warnings in client libraries
>
>     Can the maintainers of ArrayPrefixHelpers "do the right thing"
>     with respect to the serial warnings in this file? From a quick
>     look at the file, it wasn't clear to me if SUIDs should be added
>     or warnings suppressed.
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     -Joe
>
>