Re: serialisation panic
On Jan 11, 11:34 am, Roedy Green <see_webs...@mindprod.com.invalid>
wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:33:09 GMT, Thomas Fritsch
<i.dont.like.s...@invalid.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
someone who said :
<quote>
During deserialization, the fields of non-serializable classes will be
initialized using the public or protected no-arg constructor of the
class. A no-arg constructor must be accessible to the subclass that is
serializable.
</quote>
I am baffled. How could you ever be reconstituting non-serialisable
classes?
Serializable classes can be derived from non-serializable classes.
Trivially, java.lang.Object is not serializable...
When reconstituting a serialized blob into an object, the most-derived
non-serializable class is reconstituted using Java language
mechanisms, which allows it to establish invariants, and then the
remaining data is reconstituted by directly manipulating fields on the
object.
Yes, Serialization cheats on construction. It's one of the reasons I
don't like it very much. :)
-o
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