On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:28:30 GMT, Roger Riggs <rri...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> The ObjectInputStream.GetField.get(String name, Object val) method is > returning null instead of throwing an exception when the class of the object > is not found. The caller is not able to correctly handle the case where the > class is not found. The signature of GetField.get(name, val) should have a > throws ClassNotFoundException and a ClassNotFoundException exception should > be thrown. Note the addition of a system property "jdk.serialGetFieldCnfeReturnsNull" to revert to the old behavior if there is an application dependency on the old behavior. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6393
