src/java.management/share/classes/javax/management/BadAttributeValueExpException.java

@@ -43,11 +43,11 @@
      /* Serial version */
      private static final long serialVersionUID = -3105272988410493376L;
  
      /**
       * @serial A string representation of the attribute that originated this exception.
-      * for example, the string value can be the return of {@code attribute.toString()}
+      * For example, the string value can be the return of {@code attribute.toString()}.
       */
      @SuppressWarnings("serial") // See handling in constructor and readObject
      private String val;
  
      /**

@@ -66,10 +66,20 @@
       */
      public String toString()  {
          return "BadAttributeValueException: " + val;
      }
  
+     /**
+      * Restores the fields of a BadAttributeValueExpException from the stream.
+      * If the 'val' field in the stream does not contain a string
+      * it is replaced with an implementation specific string representation
+      * of the value in the stream.
+      *
+      * @param ois an ObjectInput Stream
+      * @throws IOException thrown if an error occurs
+      * @throws ClassNotFoundException if a class can not be found
+      */
      private void readObject(ObjectInputStream ois) throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
          ObjectInputStream.GetField gf = ois.readFields();
          Object valObj = gf.get("val", null);
  
          if (valObj instanceof String || valObj == null) {