A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
I have a system that heavily depends on the serialization of Lamdas. I regularly had issues with the Lambda-Notation of the form variable::method, but () -> variable.method() worked find. So I had a workaround :-) Now I have analyzed the reason for this and found https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8154236. This is exactly my case. Its an old and best known case: Please fix it. Thank you very much!


STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8154236.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
Should not cause an exception during DeSerialization
ACTUAL -
Exception in Deserializing

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public class SerializationProblem {

@FunctionalInterface
public interface MyFunctionalInterface extends Serializable {
int doApply();
}

static class MySuperclass implements Serializable {
public int returnValue() {
return 1;
}
}

static class MyImplementation extends MySuperclass {
}

static class MyOtherImplementation extends MySuperclass {
}

static class SuccessfullDeserializable implements Serializable {
private final MyFunctionalInterface myFunctionalInterface;
private final MyFunctionalInterface myOtherFunctionalInterface;

SuccessfullDeserializable() {
final MyImplementation myImplementation = new MyImplementation();
this.myFunctionalInterface = myImplementation::returnValue;
final MyImplementation myOtherImplementation = new MyImplementation();
this.myOtherFunctionalInterface = myOtherImplementation::returnValue;
}
}

static class FailingDeserializable implements Serializable {
private final MyFunctionalInterface myFunctionalInterface;
private final MyFunctionalInterface myOtherFunctionalInterface;

FailingDeserializable() {
final MyImplementation myImplementation = new MyImplementation();
this.myFunctionalInterface = myImplementation::returnValue;
final MyOtherImplementation myOtherImplementation = new MyOtherImplementation();
this.myOtherFunctionalInterface = myOtherImplementation::returnValue;
}
}

private static Object serializeAndDeserialize(final Serializable serializable) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
final ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
final ObjectOutputStream objectOutputStream = new ObjectOutputStream(byteArrayOutputStream);
objectOutputStream.writeObject(serializable);
objectOutputStream.flush();
final ByteArrayInputStream byteArrayInputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(byteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray());
final ObjectInputStream objectInputStream = new ObjectInputStream(byteArrayInputStream);
return objectInputStream.readObject();
}

public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception {
final Object first = serializeAndDeserialize(new SuccessfullDeserializable() {});
System.out.println(first.getClass().getName() + " successfully deserialized");

final Object second = serializeAndDeserialize(new FailingDeserializable() {});
// not reached....
System.out.println(second.getClass().getName() + " successfully deserialized");
}
}

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