On Mon, 21 Aug 2023 16:04:49 GMT, Raffaello Giulietti <rgiulie...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> This improves the identification of the serialization magic fields and >> methods. > > Raffaello Giulietti has updated the pull request incrementally with one > additional commit since the last revision: > > Removed a spurious, unintended file. src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/ObjectStreamClass.java line 1670: > 1668: ObjectStreamField[] serialPersistentFields = null; > 1669: try { > 1670: Field f = getDeclaredField(cl, ObjectStreamField[].class, > "serialPersistentFields"); This can technically be a breaking change, as it was supported for the field to have a declared type that is assignable from `ObjectStreamField[]`, as long as it held an `ObjectStreamField[]` instance at runtime, even if it wasn’t officially supported. class Example implements Serializable { // This used to work before this patch in OpenJDK private static final Object serialPersistentFields = new ObjectStreamField[] { // ... }; // ... } ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15364#discussion_r1300341941