RFR: 8273660: De-Serialization Stack is suppressing ClassNotFoundException [v2]

[Roger Riggs]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2021 16:14:57 GMT, Michael McMahon <michaelm at openjdk.org> wrote:

> How likely is it that existing code is using ObjectInputStream::getFields and is already handling class not found by checking for null return from the returned GetField?

Very unlikely, a field value may be null for because it really is null or it is a field for which there is no value in the stream (supporting evolution). Class not found is supposed to show up as an exception.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6053