On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 12:58 PM Rob Spoor <apa...@icemanx.nl> wrote:
> On 14/06/2020 15:41, Gary Gregory wrote: > > In order to avoid posting the same answer here and on GitHib over and > over, > > I tried to explain BC here: > > > https://garygregory.wordpress.com/2020/06/14/how-we-handle-binary-compatibility-at-apache-commons/ > > > > Feedback is most welcome. > > > > Gary > > You mention that adding fields is fine. That's true for binary > compatibility, but it could cause serialization incompatibility. For > instance, if you add a primitive field, trying to deserialize an > existing blob will set the value to the default value of 0. That could > cause code to break. It's why I made the "end" field of > CharSequenceReader Integer instead of int; see > > https://github.com/apache/commons-io/blob/master/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/io/input/CharSequenceReader.java > . > > Indeed, but Serialization is not part of binary compatibility. Gary > Rob > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
