How can I trigger a @Serial warning?

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Hi Cay,

The enhancements to javac's serial lint checking have not been 
implemented as of yet. For now, @Serial is just documentation.

HTH,

-Joe

On 9/8/2021 10:43 PM, Cay Horstmann wrote:
> I am trying to give an example of the utility of the @Serial 
> annotation. But the JDK 17 javac doesn't seem to do anything with it. 
> I tried:
>
> @Serial private void readObject(java.io.ObjectInputStream stream, int 
> shouldNotHaveThisParam) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException
> @Serial private static final String serialVersionUID = "Fred";
> @Serial public String getName() { ... }
>
> Is there some flag that I need to use? I tried -Xlint:serial, but it 
> didn't make a difference.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cay
>