JDK 14 RFR of JDK-8202385: Annotation to mark serial-related fields and methods

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Sergey,

While it might be reasonable to improve doclint support with better 
checks for serialization,
I think that is better done as a separate task, and not conflated with 
Joe's work here.

-- Jon


On 09/10/2019 11:45 AM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
> Hi, Joe.
>
> Can we as part of this effort improve validation of javadocs tags: 
> @serial, @serialField, etc.
> I am sure that we use these tags here and there incorrectly.
>
> BTW probably we should consider all serialized fields/methods/etc, as 
> kind
> of public API, and validates it by doclint accordingly.
>
> On 7/9/19 4:14 pm, Joe Darcy wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Returning to some old work [1], please review the addition of a 
>> java.io.Serial annotation type for JDK 14 to mark serial-related 
>> fields and methods:
>>
>>      webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/8202385.3/
>>      CSR: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8217698
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Joe
>>
>> [1] Previous review threads:
>>
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2018-May/053055.html 
>>
>>
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2018-August/054801.html 
>>
>>
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