RFR [9] 8071472: Add field access to support setting final fields in readObject

[Alan Bateman]

On 18/03/2015 11:06, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> :
>
>  /**
>   * Checks that all final instance fields, declared by the class where
>   * the {@code readObject} callback is being invoked, have been set.
>   *
>   * <p> This method is intended to be called as a final step after all
>   * final instance fields have been set.
>   *
>   * @throws InvalidObjectException if one, or more, final instance
>   *         fields have not been set
>   */
>  void checkAllFinalsSet() throws InvalidObjectException;
>
>
> ...and the user code would look similar to this, from java.io.File:
>
>   s.fieldSetter().set("path", p)
>                  .set("prefixLength", pLen)
>                  .checkAllFinalsSet();
I think this is a lot clearer as it makes it explicit and in addition it 
is less confusing to have the InvalidObjectException thrown here rather 
than somewhere in the deserialization code.

-Alan