Serialization of Method object in Java is possible?

Question

I'm getting this error when I try to serialize a Method object.

java.io.NotSerializableException: java.lang.reflect.Method

Any Idea?

Answer 1

You can do it manually. Just serialize your class name, method name and parameter class names as strings and then recreate your Method object using a reflection mechanism during deserialization.

Class.forName(clsName).getMethod("methodName", Class.forName(param1ClsName), ....);

If you implement Externalizable interface then You can use your class as regular serializable class.