I'm taking a Computer Science class where the assignment boilerplate code is a Java framework where most of the classes (or their superclasses) extend Serializable. What ends up happening then is VSCode complains to me that
The serializable class [insert class name here] does not declare a static final serialVersionUID field of type long"
for nearly all the starting code. I know in other IDEs such as IntelliJ and Eclipse, this specific warning can be suppressed for all Java projects. What would be the equivalent operation in VSCode? I have the Language Support for Java package installed.
The following are reasons why I cannot declare a serialVersionUID or use @SuppressWarnings:
This would force me to modify code which I am not allowed to modify. The prof only wants students to implement certain areas of the framework.
I would need to make these changes to about 30 classes which is less than ideal.
Currently Java Support for VSCode reads a file called .settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs as part of its Eclipse project support. That's a folder called .settings in the root folder of the project, then a file called org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs in that folder.
In this file, we can suppress the serialVersionUID warning by adding the following line:
org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler.problem.missingSerialVersion=ignore
Now just restart VS Code, and those warnings will no longer show up.