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

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