Re: Getter/Setter - Serialization

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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Date:
Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:35:16 -0400
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On 7/24/2011 12:33 PM, Thomas Lehmann wrote:

On 24 Jul., 17:30, markspace<-@.> wrote:

On 7/24/2011 8:07 AM, Thomas Lehmann wrote:

I might have problems with the serialization then obviously requiring
that the setter exists


Yeah, I think the setter/getter might be required for XML style
serialization, but not in the general case.

What are you doing that Eclipse says you need to mark a field as
transient? This doesn't make sense to me, because general serialization
will handle this just fine. I think I need some context here.

Here's a good article on serialization:

<http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Programming/serializa...>

The warning message comes with PMD (plugin).
I'm intending to use XStream for XML serialization and so far I can
see
there is no need to provide getter and setter.

I know that article (URL) but reading also "Effective Java" you will
be warned
about the problem with using "Serializable".


Yes.

But his arguments against serialization applies to xstream as
well, so ...

Arne

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