A class implements this interface and
defines the validateObject(
) method in order to validate itself when
it and all the objects it depends on have been completely
deserialized from an ObjectInputStream. The
validateObject( ) method is only invoked, however,
if the object is passed to
ObjectInputStream.registerValidation(
); this must be done from the
readObject( )
method of the object. Note that if an object is deserialized as part
of a larger object graph, its validateObject( )
method is not invoked until the entire graph is read, and the
original call to ObjectInputStream.readObject( )
is about to return. validateObject( ) should throw
an
InvalidObjectException
if the object fails validation. This stops object serialization, and
the original call to ObjectInputStream.readObject(
) terminates with the
InvalidObjectException exception.
public interface ObjectInputValidation {
// Public Instance Methods
void validateObject( ) throws InvalidObjectException;
}
