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For example: Object A contains Object B that contains Object C that contains Object A.
Will Object A serialize properly?
Comment #9 here indicates that it does not work .
In contrast, XStream indicates that it does handle cyclic references.
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Since serialization does not offer any transaction control mechanisms per se, it is not suitable for use within applications needing concurrent access without making use of additional APIs.
A circular reference happens when one object refers to another, and that other one refers to the first object.
Serialization in Java allows us to convert an Object to stream that we can send over the network or save it as file or store in DB for later usage. Deserialization is the process of converting Object stream to actual Java Object to be used in our program.
So far, no JDK Enhancement Proposal (JEP) has been proposed publicly to deprecate the serialization mechanism in Java 11, which is expected to be released later this year.
Yes, the default Java serialization works for cyclic references. When you serialize object C, the field will contain a backreference to the already-serialized object A instead of serializing it again.
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