Hi David,
On 5/10/2018 1:39 PM, David Lloyd wrote:
Would it be allowed to enable the serial lint without using the
@Serial annotation?
Certainly.
A limited serial lint checker already exists in javac and we enable that
check it in the JDK build. Basically it checks that a serializable class
defines a static final serialVersionUID field.
The expanded checks I have planned for JDK-8202056: "Expand serial
warning to check for bad overloads of serial-related methods" for do
various additional checks even without @Serial annotation being used.
Without the annotation, the lint checks could verify that if a field or
method with one of the designated names is present in a serializable
class, it is declared properly, catching bad method overloads, etc. In
addition, it could catch ineffective serial-related fields and methods
in an enum, etc.
HTH,
-Joe
