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Re: SERIALIZING a CLASS containing non SERIALIZABLE objects

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From: Jon Skeet
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 08:59
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Laurent Souriau <lsouriau@club-internet.fr> wrote:
> I have a problem with a self made class that I want to make serializable.
> Everything is Ok, except for a member of this class which is a
> BufferedReader (non serializable). It gives me a NULL pointer exception
> on it. I tried to declare it as :
> ----
> private transient BufferedReader data;
> ----
> But it doesn't improve the things.

It would help if you said exactly *what* gave the the 
NullPointerException. What were you trying to do? Yes, a deserialised 
object containing a transient reference will have a null reference 
afterwards, as you'd expect. Is this what's giving you the NPE?

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Subject: Re: SERIALIZING a CLASS containing non SERIALIZABLE objects
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 09:59:42 +0100
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