serialver(1)

✨ serialver(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the Remote Method Invocation (RMI) Tools corner of the manual 💅. This page is all about serialver, and it's lowkey iconic for one job: handing you serial version UIDs without the drama.

🌸 NAME 🌸

serialver — returns the serial version UID for specified classes. no cap, that's the whole name-section vibe. 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

serialver [ options ] [ classnames ]

• options — the command-line options. See OPTIONS below, bestie.
• classnames — the classes for which the serialVersionUID is to be returned. yes, plural, you can ask for more than one. 💖

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

The serialver command returns the serialVersionUID for one or more classes in a form suitable for copying into an evolving class. it's giving "copy-paste-ready" and honestly? we love that. ✨

When you call it with no arguments at all, serialver prints a usage line. that's your little "hey, you forgot the class names" moment. 🙈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -classpath path-files — sets the search path for application classes and resources. Separate classes and resources with a colon (:). colon supremacy, fr fr.
• -show — displays a simple user interface. Enter the full class name and press either the Enter key or the Show button to display the serialVersionUID. very "click the button, get the UID" energy.
• -Joption — passes option to the Java Virtual Machine, where option is one of the options described on the reference page for the Java application launcher. For example, -J-Xms48m sets the startup memory to 48 MB. See java(1). big "J is for JVM" energy.

🎀 NOTES 🎀

The serialver command loads and initializes the specified classes in its virtual machine. and by default, it does not set a security manager. important little fact, bestie. 💅

If the serialver command is to be run with untrusted classes, then a security manager can be set with the following option:

-J-Djava.security.manager

When necessary, a security policy can be specified with the following option:

-J-Djava.security.policy=<policy file>

untrusted classes are exactly the vibe where you wanna pay attention to that security-manager note. not me being dramatic, it's literally in the page. 💀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• The java.io.ObjectStream class description at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/io/ObjectStreamClass.html

💌 xoxo, your serialver(1) bestie — source/version: JDK 8, dated 21 November 2013. slay and stay serialized. 🎀🦋