About serialVersionUID

The serialization runtime associates with each serializable class a version number, called a serialVersionUID, which is used during deserialization to verify that the sender and receiver of a serialized object have loaded classes for that object that are compatible with respect to serialization. If the receiver has loaded a class for the object that has a different serialVersionUID than that of the corresponding sender's class, then deserialization will result in an InvalidClassException. A serializable class can declare its own serialVersionUID explicitly by declaring a field named "serialVersionUID" that must be static, final, and of type long: ANY-ACCESS-MODIFIER static final long serialVersionUID = 42L;  If a serializable class does not explicitly declare a serialVersionUID, then the serialization runtime will calculate a default serialVersionUID value for that class based on various aspects of the class, as described in the Java(TM) Object Serialization Specification. However, it is strongly recommended that all serializable classes explicitly declare serialVersionUID values, since the default serialVersionUID computation is highly sensitive to class details that may vary depending on compiler implementations, and can thus result in unexpected InvalidClassExceptions during deserialization. Therefore, to guarantee a consistent serialVersionUID value across different java compiler implementations, a serializable class must declare an explicit serialVersionUID value. It is also strongly advised that explicit serialVersionUID declarations use the private modifier where possible, since such declarations apply only to the immediately declaring class--serialVersionUID fields are not useful as inherited members. 序列化运行时使用一个称为 serialVersionUID 的版本号与每个可序列化类相关联，该序列号在反序列化过程中用于验证序列化对象的发送者和接收者是否为该对象加载了与序列化兼容的类。如果接收者加载的该对象的类的 serialVersionUID 与对应的发送者的类的版本号不同，则反序列化将会导致 InvalidClassException。可序列化类可以通过声明名为 "serialVersionUID" 的字段（该字段必须是静态 (static)、最终 (final) 的 long 型字段）显式声明其自己的 serialVersionUID： ANY-ACCESS-MODIFIER static final long serialVersionUID = 42L; 如果可序列化类未显式声明 serialVersionUID，则序列化运行时将基于该类的各个方面计算该类的默认 serialVersionUID 值，如“Java(TM) 对象序列化规范”中所述。不过，强烈建议所有可序列化类都显式声明 serialVersionUID 值，原因是计算默认的 serialVersionUID 对类的详细信息具有较高的敏感性，根据编译器实现的不同可能千差万别，这样在反序列化过程中可能会导致意外的 InvalidClassException。因此，为保证 serialVersionUID 值跨不同 java 编译器实现的一致性，序列化类必须声明一个明确的 serialVersionUID 值。还强烈建议使用private 修饰符显示声明 serialVersionUID（如果可能），原因是这种声明仅应用于直接声明类 -- serialVersionUID 字段作为继承成员没有用处。数组类不能声明一个明确的 serialVersionUID，因此它们总是具有默认的计算值，但是数组类没有匹配 serialVersionUID 值的要求。