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โ˜• JAVA TRICK: Serializing Records

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๐˜๐จ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐›๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐›๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐ž๐ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐›๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ค ๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ข๐œ,๐Ÿˆโ€โฌ› ๐›๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ง๐จ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐œ๐ก ๐๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐š๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐๐ž๐ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฌ?

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ ๐ฎ๐š๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ž๐ž๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐œ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐š๐œ๐œ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐จ๐›๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐จ๐๐ž๐ฅ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž๐ฌ ๐ข๐ญ ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ฒ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐จ ๐œ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐ญ๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ณ๐š๐›๐ฅ๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ซ๐๐ฌ, ๐ข๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ž ๐ญ๐จ ๐›๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ค ๐ฆ๐š๐ ๐ข๐œ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž '๐ฐ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐Ž๐›๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ', '๐ซ๐ž๐š๐๐Ž๐›๐ฃ๐ž๐œ๐ญ', ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐ข๐ค๐ž !

Records can be serialized and deserialized if your record class implements ๐‘บ๐’†๐’“๐’Š๐’‚๐’๐’Š๐’›๐’‚๐’ƒ๐’๐’†. There are restrictions though.

๐Ÿ. None of the systems you can use to replace the default serialization process are available for records.

Creating a ๐’˜๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐‘ถ๐’ƒ๐’‹๐’†๐’„๐’•() and ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’…๐‘ถ๐’ƒ๐’‹๐’†๐’„๐’•() method has no effect, nor implementing Externalizable.

๐Ÿ. Records can be used as proxy objects to serialize other objects.

A ๐’“๐’†๐’‚๐’…๐‘น๐’†๐’”๐’๐’๐’—๐’†() method can return a record. Adding a ๐’˜๐’“๐’Š๐’•๐’†๐‘น๐’†๐’‘๐’๐’‚๐’„๐’†() in a record is also possible.

๐Ÿ‘. Deserializing a record always call the canonical constructor.

So all the validation rules you may add in this constructor will be enforced when deserializing a record.

This makes records a very good choiceโœ… for creating data transport objects in your application.