On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 20:13:50 GMT, Hannes Wallnöfer <hann...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review a doc-only change to mostly add missing `@serial` javadoc tags. 
> This is a sub-task of [JDK-8286931] to allow us to re-enable the javadoc 
> `-serialwarn` option in the JDK doc build, which has been disabled since JDK 
> 19.
> 
> [JDK-8286931]: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8286931
> 
> For private and package-private serialized fields that already have a doc 
> comment, the main description is converted to a block tag by prepending 
> `@serial` since these fields do not require a main description. For protected 
> and public serialized fields that require a main description, an empty 
> `@serial` block tag is appended to the doc comment instead. The effect is the 
> same, as the main description is used in `serial-form.html` if the `@serial` 
> tag is missing or empty. For those fields that do not have a doc comment, a 
> doc comment with an empty `@serial` tag is added. 
> 
> Apart from missing `@serial` tags, this PR also adds a `@serialData` tag to 
> `java.awt.datatransfer.DataFlavor.writeExternal(ObjectOutput)` that the 
> javadoc `-serialwarn` option complains about. This is the only change in this 
> PR that adds documentation text and causes a change in the generated 
> documentation.

src/java.datatransfer/share/classes/java/awt/datatransfer/DataFlavor.java line 
1288:

> 1286: 
> 1287:     /**
> 1288:      * Serializes this {@code DataFlavor}.

This most definitely changes the serialisation spec. So a CSR is needed.
Also shouldn't readExternal be updated to correspond ?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22980#discussion_r1924275958

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