Re: how to serialize/deserialize static final fields

[Zhaohua Meng]

By definition static variables are not serializable. You need to write your own se/deserializer. I am trying to figure out a way to do the same thing to my application. Once figured out, I will drop some lines here.
Liviu Chiriac wrote:

Say that I have a Web Service that sends the client a ComplexObject. The client needs to return it back after setting its name to either ComplexObject.NAME1, ComplexObject.NAME2 or ComplexObject.NAME3 (static final fields – constants)


The problem is that the static final fields never get serialized/deserialized by the BeanSerializer.


Is this a bug, or intended behavior? If intended behavior, what is an elegant way of doing it?


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public class ComplexObject implements java.io.Serializable {

public static final String NAME1 = “name1”;

public static final String NAME2 = “name2”;

public static final String NAME3 = “name3”;


private name;

public void setName(String s) {

name = s;

}

public String getName() {

return name;

}

}

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