On 18/03/2015 11:06, Chris Hegarty wrote:
:
/**
* Checks that all final instance fields, declared by the class where
* the {@code readObject} callback is being invoked, have been set.
*
* <p> This method is intended to be called as a final step after all
* final instance fields have been set.
*
* @throws InvalidObjectException if one, or more, final instance
* fields have not been set
*/
void checkAllFinalsSet() throws InvalidObjectException;
...and the user code would look similar to this, from java.io.File:
s.fieldSetter().set("path", p)
.set("prefixLength", pLen)
.checkAllFinalsSet();
I think this is a lot clearer as it makes it explicit and in addition it
is less confusing to have the InvalidObjectException thrown here rather
than somewhere in the deserialization code.
-Alan
