Name: ygR10224 Date: 09/11/2003


Filed By : SPB JCK team (###@###.###)
JDK : java full version "1.5.0-beta-b18"
JCK : 1.5
Platform[s] : Solaris
switch/Mode :
JCK test owner : http://javaweb.eng/jct/sqe/JCK-tck/usr/owners.jto
Failing Test [s] : N/A


Problem description
===================
In spite of the java.net.Inet6Address implementing
the java.io.Serializable interface it can't be serialized
on system which supports IPv6, because this class contains
non-transient and non-static field scope_ifname of non-Serializable
class java.net.NetworkInterface.

Minimized test:
===============
------- Test1.java -------
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
  
public class Test1 {
     
     public static void main(String[] args)
         throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException,
                SocketException, UnknownHostException
     {
         Inet6Address obj = null;

         byte[] addr = new byte[] {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1};
         NetworkInterface ni = NetworkInterface.getByInetAddress(
                 InetAddress.getByName("::1"));

         System.out.println(ni);
                 
         obj = Inet6Address.getByAddress("::1", addr, ni);
         
         ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("i6a1.ser"));
         oos.writeObject(obj);
         oos.close();
         
         ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream("i6a1.ser"));
         Inet6Address nobj = (Inet6Address) ois.readObject();
         
         if (nobj.equals(obj)) {
             System.out.println("PASSED");
         } else {
             System.out.println("FAILED");
         }
     }
 
 }

------- end-of-Test1.java -------

Minimized test output:
======================
<gyi@sword(pts/6).267> java -Djava.net.preferIPv6Addresses=true Test1
name:lo0 (lo0) index: 1 addresses:
/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1;
/127.0.0.1;

Exception in thread "main" java.io.NotSerializableException: java.net.NetworkInterface
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1057)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.defaultWriteFields(ObjectOutputStream.java:1335)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData(ObjectOutputStream.java:1307)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:1250)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1055)
        at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:278)
        at Test1.main(Test1.java:21)

Specific Machine Info:
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SunOS sword 5.8 Generic_108528-22 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2

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