Hello, Cay!
By the way, in IntelliJ IDEA we have the inspection that warns you about
wrong use of Serial:
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It also suggests adding this annotation where it's appropriate:
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Both inspections are turned on by default.
With best regards,
Tagir Valeev.
On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 2:47 PM Cay Horstmann <cay.horstm...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I am trying to give an example of the utility of the @Serial annotation.
> But the JDK 17 javac doesn't seem to do anything with it. I tried:
>
> @Serial private void readObject(java.io.ObjectInputStream stream, int
> shouldNotHaveThisParam) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException
> @Serial private static final String serialVersionUID = "Fred";
> @Serial public String getName() { ... }
>
> Is there some flag that I need to use? I tried -Xlint:serial, but it
> didn't make a difference.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cay
>
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