Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition [Electronic resources]

This class represents a named field of a specified type (i.e., a specified Class). When a class serializes itself by writing a set of fields that are different from the fields it uses in its own implementation, it defines the set of fields to be written with an array of ObjectStreamField objects. This array should be the value of a private static field named serialPersistentFields. The methods of this class are used internally by the serialization mechanism and are not typically used elsewhere. See also ObjectOutputStream.PutField and ObjectInputStream.GetField.

public class 
ObjectStreamField  implements Comparable<Object> {
// Public Constructors
public 
ObjectStreamField (String 
name , Class<?> 
type );  
1.4   public 
ObjectStreamField (String 
name , Class<?> 
type , boolean 
unshared );  
// Public Instance Methods
public String 
getName ( );  
public int 
getOffset ( );  
public Class<?> 
getType ( );  
public char 
getTypeCode ( );  
public String 
getTypeString ( );  
public boolean 
isPrimitive ( );  
1.4   public boolean 
isUnshared ( );  
// Methods Implementing Comparable
public int 
compareTo (Object 
obj );  
// Public Methods Overriding Object
public String 
toString ( );  
// Protected Instance Methods
protected void 
setOffset (int 
offset );  
}

Returned By

ObjectStreamClass.{getField( ), getFields( )}

Type Of

ObjectStreamClass.NO_FIELDS