JEP 187: Serialization 2.0

[Florian Weimer]

On 01/22/2014 03:47 PM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> On 22/01/14 13:57, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 01/14/2014 01:26 AM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
>>> Posted: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/187
>>
>> There's another aspect of the current approach to serialization that is
>> not mentioned: the type information does not come from the calling
>> context, but exclusively from the input stream.
>
> Have you overlooked resolveClass [1], or are you looking for additional
> context?

I mean something slightly different, so here's a concrete example: 
Assume we are deserializing an instance of a class with a String field. 
  The current framework deserializes whatever is in the input stream, 
and will bail out with a ClassCastException if the deserialized object 
turns out unusable.  Contrast this with an alternative approach that 
uses the knowledge that the field String and will refuse to read 
anything else from the input stream.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team