8240957: Clarify BadAttributeValueExpException readObject method
Reviewed-by: bpb
diff --git a/src/java.management/share/classes/javax/management/BadAttributeValueExpException.java b/src/java.management/share/classes/javax/management/BadAttributeValueExpException.java
index 68bd9fc..6290449 100644
--- a/src/java.management/share/classes/javax/management/BadAttributeValueExpException.java
+++ b/src/java.management/share/classes/javax/management/BadAttributeValueExpException.java
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
/**
* @serial A string representation of the attribute that originated this exception.
- * for example, the string value can be the return of {@code attribute.toString()}
+ * For example, the string value can be the return of {@code attribute.toString()}.
*/
@SuppressWarnings("serial") // See handling in constructor and readObject
private String val;
@@ -68,6 +68,16 @@
return "BadAttributeValueException: " + val;
}
+ /**
+ * Restores the fields of a BadAttributeValueExpException from the stream.
+ * If the 'val' field in the stream does not contain a string
+ * it is replaced with an implementation specific string representation
+ * of the value in the stream.
+ *
+ * @param ois an ObjectInput Stream
+ * @throws IOException thrown if an error occurs
+ * @throws ClassNotFoundException if a class can not be found
+ */
private void readObject(ObjectInputStream ois) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
ObjectInputStream.GetField gf = ois.readFields();
Object valObj = gf.get("val", null);
