RFR: 8333796: Add missing serialization functionality to sun.reflect.ReflectionFactory [v10]

David M. Lloyd duke at openjdk.org
Wed Nov 13 19:38:52 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 39 commits:

 - Address review feedback
 - Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream-jdk/master' into serialization
 - 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
 - ... and 29 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/eb240a7d...7a85d620

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Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/19702/files
  Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=19702&range=09
  Stats: 914 lines in 6 files changed: 911 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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