Why does Java have transient fields?

Technology CommunityCategory: JavaWhy does Java have transient fields?
VietMX Staff asked 3 years ago

The transient keyword in Java is used to indicate that a field should not be part of the serialization.

By default, all of object’s variables get converted into a persistent state. In some cases, you may want to avoid persisting some variables because you don’t have the need to persist those variables. So you can declare those variables as transient. If the variable is declared as transient, then it will not be persisted.