On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:03:51 GMT, Sean Mullan <mul...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Please review this 20+ year old bug (!), which marks the non-serializable > fields of Certificate and CertPath with the transient modifier. These classes > use an alternate serialization mechanism by overriding the writeReplace > method. However, the fields of each class were never marked as transient and > as a result were incorrectly documented in the Serialized Form section of the > javadoc. > > CSR: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8277128 The serialized form doc for both classes should say something about what is serialized. Since it is using writeReplace, it can indicate that CertificateRep/CertPathRep is used instead (and the arguments). likely you'll need to use the @serial javadoc tag and check the generated javadoc to verify. ------------- Changes requested by rriggs (Reviewer). PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6392
