Initial JDK 11 RFR of JDK-8202385: Annotation to mark serial-related fields and methods

[David Lloyd]

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 7:52 PM, joe darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> On 5/10/2018 1:39 PM, David Lloyd wrote:
>>
>> Would it be allowed to enable the serial lint without using the
>> @Serial annotation?
>>
>>
>
> Certainly.
>
> A limited serial lint checker already exists in javac and we enable that
> check it in the JDK build. Basically it checks that a serializable class
> defines a static final serialVersionUID field.
>
> The expanded checks I have planned for JDK-8202056: "Expand serial warning
> to check for bad overloads of serial-related methods" for do various
> additional checks even without @Serial annotation being used. Without the
> annotation, the lint checks could verify that if a field or method with one
> of the designated names is present in a serializable class, it is declared
> properly, catching bad method overloads, etc. In addition, it could catch
> ineffective serial-related fields and methods in an enum, etc.

Great.  Then it's a +1 from me, FWIW.

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