On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 7:52 PM, joe darcy <joe.da...@oracle.com> wrote: > 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.
Great. Then it's a +1 from me, FWIW. -- - DML
