@transient object - does not work and no error/warning.

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"@transient object" does not work and does not generate an error. Instead the compiler silently accepts the annotation and then simply ignores it.

object ExpMain {
 
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    import java.io._
   
    val test = new TransientTest
    test.nested.value = 1
    test.transientNested.value = 1
   
    val bytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream
    val out = new ObjectOutputStream(bytes)
    out.writeObject(test)
    out.close()
    val in = new ObjectInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes.toByteArray))
    val restored = in.readObject.asInstanceOf[TransientTest]
   
    println("nested.value equal: " + (test.nested.value == restored.nested.value))
    println("transientNested.value equal: " + (test.transientNested.value == restored.transientNested.value))
  }
}

class TransientTest extends Serializable {
  object nested extends Serializable { var value = 0 }
  @transient object transientNested extends Serializable { var value = 0 }
}

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Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-5773?orig=1
Reporter: @lexn82
Affected Versions: 2.9.2

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@adriaanm said:
Un-assigning to foster work stealing, as announced in https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/scala-internals/o8WG4plpNkw

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@adriaanm said:
Unassigning and rescheduling to M6 as previous deadline was missed.

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Sonnenschein (sonnenschein) said:
I also spent some time to test with the following result:

@transient for a nested object works only in an enclosing object. Unfortunately it does not work in any enclosing trait or class.

See also object ScalaObjectSerialization in TSerializable.scala.