RFR: 8333796: Add missing serialization functionality to sun.reflect.ReflectionFactory [v8]

[David M. Lloyd]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 12:49:08 GMT, David M. Lloyd <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Issue [JDK-8164908](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8164908) added support for functionality required to continue to support IIOP and custom serializers in light of additional module-based restrictions on reflection. It was expected that these libraries would use `sun.misc.Unsafe` in order to access fields of serializable classes. However, with JEP 471, the methods necessary to do this are being removed.
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>> To allow these libraries to continue to function, it is proposed to add two methods to `sun.reflect.ReflectionFactory` which will allow serialization libraries to acquire a method handle to generated `readObject`/`writeObject` methods which set or get the fields of the serializable class using the serialization `GetField`/`PutField` mechanism. These generated methods should be used by serialization libraries to serialize and deserialize classes which do not have a `readObject`/`writeObject` method or which use `ObjectInputStream.defaultReadObject`/`ObjectOutputStream.defaultWriteObject` to supplement default serialization.
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>> It is also proposed to add methods which allow for the reading of serialization-specific private static final fields from classes which have them.
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>> With the addition of these methods, serialization libraries no longer need to rely on `Unsafe` for serialization/deserialization activities.
>> cc: @AlanBateman
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> David M. Lloyd has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Round out the documentation of the new methods to explain the supported and unsupported cases

I think I'm just needing two reviewers now (and a sponsor after that). It's close!

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19702#issuecomment-2468558562