[hibernate-dev] 6.0 - id type

[andrea boriero]

+1 for removing the Serializable restriction

On 27 March 2017 at 18:37, Steve Ebersole <steve at hibernate.org> wrote:

> In all versions of Hibernate to-date we have required that the Java type of
> an id be Serializable.  Strictly speaking JPA has no such restriction - it
> says ids can be any Object type *unless* the entity is to be serialized, in
> which case the id must be Serializable (duh).
>
> As we transition into 6.0, I wonder if we want to loosen this restriction
> and allow the id to be any Object type as well.  There really is no valid
> reason (beyond the obvious case explicitly discussed in the JPA spec) for
> requiring the id to be Serializable.
>
> WDYT?
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