RFR: 8333796: Add missing serialization functionality to sun.reflect.ReflectionFactory [v9]
David M. Lloyd
duke at openjdk.org
Wed Nov 13 13:17:31 UTC 2024
> 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
David M. Lloyd has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 37 commits:
- Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream-jdk/master' into serialization
- Round out the documentation of the new methods to explain the supported and unsupported cases
- Move `serialPersistentFields` for a degree of method order consistency
- Address review feedback
- Test fixes and finish renaming
- Address review feedback
- Address review comment
- Eliminate cache
- Rework using facilities found in ObjectStreamClass
This variation has the disadvantage of requiring a couple temporary arrays to be allocated each time the method handles are used.
- More tests
- ... and 27 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/133f8f31...d57c4346
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Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19702/files
Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=19702&range=08
Stats: 916 lines in 6 files changed: 913 ins; 1 del; 2 mod
Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19702.diff
Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/19702/head:pull/19702
PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19702
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