[GROOVY-4305] Make groovy.lang.Reference implement Serializable

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.4, 1.8-beta-1
• Assignee: Guillaume Sauthier
• Reporter: Graeme Rocher
• Created: 15/Jul/10 04:21
• Updated: 22/Jul/10 17:32
• Resolved: 19/Jul/10 10:43

Description

Groovy's Reference class doesn't implement serializable. If the variable captured is serializable so should be the reference. This problem presents itself in many frameworks that serialize the state of Groovy code that uses closures.