Re: Serialization reminder (was: Patch: PrintWriter merge)

[Warren Levy <warrenl at cygnus dot com>]

On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Tom Tromey wrote:

> Warren> It is best if you could test the class too by serializing
> Warren> objects of the class and seeing that they are deserialized
> Warren> properly by other implementations and vice versa with libgcj.
> 
> It would be cool if we had some easy way to do this.  For instance if
> we had a script which would do the dirty work somehow.  Then we could
> just run "magic-script java.lang.foo" before doing a commit to make
> sure our changes didn't break something.  Is this possible?

Hmm, seems like it should be (for most cases at least).  I'll look at
getting this together.  It'll also need input for the data so the class
can be instantiated, but that shouldn't be any trouble.

Good idea; thanks Tom!
--warrenl