You need to configure your IDEA inspections accordingly. See http://germanogiudici.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/how-to-generate-serialversionuid-with-intellij-idea-no-external-plugin-needed/ - that way, a Serializable without a serialVersionUID will get a yellow warning and Alt-Enter creation of it.
Never understood why this is disabled by default. Joern On 11.01.2013, at 07:15, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes. Anything that is Serializable should have an id. I know Eclipse will > generate them but I don't use Eclipse. I believe IntelliJ will too but I've > never been able to get it to do it. Not a fan of -1. > > Ralph > > On Jan 10, 2013, at 9:37 PM, Gary Gregory wrote: > >> Hi All: >> >> Many classes are missing serial version IDs. >> >> Should we add them now? >> >> If no, why not? >> >> If yes, what should the value be? The usual default of -1 or a generated ID? >> >> Gary >> >> -- >> E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] >> JUnit in Action, 2nd Ed: http://bit.ly/ECvg0 >> Spring Batch in Action: http://bit.ly/bqpbCK >> Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com >> Home: http://garygregory.com/ >> Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
