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    PutField
    abstract class PutField
    
    Provide programmatic access to the persistent fields to be written to ObjectOutput.
    Summary
    
    
      
        
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             Put the value of the named boolean field into the persistent field. 
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             Put the value of the named byte field into the persistent field. 
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             Put the value of the named char field into the persistent field. 
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             Put the value of the named double field into the persistent field. 
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             Put the value of the named float field into the persistent field. 
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             Put the value of the named int field into the persistent field. 
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             Put the value of the named Object field into the persistent field. 
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             Put the value of the named long field into the persistent field. 
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             Put the value of the named short field into the persistent field. 
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             Write the data and fields to the specified ObjectOutput stream, which must be the same stream that produced this PutField object. 
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    Public constructors
    
    Public methods
    
      put
      
      abstract fun put(
    name: String!, 
    val: Boolean
): Unit
      Put the value of the named boolean field into the persistent field.
      
        
          
            | Parameters | 
          
          
            name | 
            String!: the name of the serializable field | 
          
          
            val | 
            Boolean: the value to assign to the field | 
          
        
      
      
        
          
            | Exceptions | 
          
          
            java.lang.IllegalArgumentException | 
            if name does not match the name of a serializable field for the class whose fields are being written, or if the type of the named field is not boolean | 
          
        
      
     
    
      put
      
      abstract fun put(
    name: String!, 
    val: Byte
): Unit
      Put the value of the named byte field into the persistent field.
      
        
          
            | Parameters | 
          
          
            name | 
            String!: the name of the serializable field | 
          
          
            val | 
            Byte: the value to assign to the field | 
          
        
      
      
        
          
            | Exceptions | 
          
          
            java.lang.IllegalArgumentException | 
            if name does not match the name of a serializable field for the class whose fields are being written, or if the type of the named field is not byte | 
          
        
      
     
    
      put
      
      abstract fun put(
    name: String!, 
    val: Char
): Unit
      Put the value of the named char field into the persistent field.
      
        
          
            | Parameters | 
          
          
            name | 
            String!: the name of the serializable field | 
          
          
            val | 
            Char: the value to assign to the field | 
          
        
      
      
        
          
            | Exceptions | 
          
          
            java.lang.IllegalArgumentException | 
            if name does not match the name of a serializable field for the class whose fields are being written, or if the type of the named field is not char | 
          
        
      
     
    
      put
      
      abstract fun put(
    name: String!, 
    val: Double
): Unit
      Put the value of the named double field into the persistent field.
      
        
          
            | Parameters | 
          
          
            name | 
            String!: the name of the serializable field | 
          
          
            val | 
            Double: the value to assign to the field | 
          
        
      
      
        
          
            | Exceptions | 
          
          
            java.lang.IllegalArgumentException | 
            if name does not match the name of a serializable field for the class whose fields are being written, or if the type of the named field is not double | 
          
        
      
     
    
      put
      
      abstract fun put(
    name: String!, 
    val: Float
): Unit
      Put the value of the named float field into the persistent field.
      
        
          
            | Parameters | 
          
          
            name | 
            String!: the name of the serializable field | 
          
          
            val | 
            Float: the value to assign to the field | 
          
        
      
      
        
          
            | Exceptions | 
          
          
            java.lang.IllegalArgumentException | 
            if name does not match the name of a serializable field for the class whose fields are being written, or if the type of the named field is not float | 
          
        
      
     
    
      put
      
      abstract fun put(
    name: String!, 
    val: Int
): Unit
      Put the value of the named int field into the persistent field.
      
        
          
            | Parameters | 
          
          
            name | 
            String!: the name of the serializable field | 
          
          
            val | 
            Int: the value to assign to the field | 
          
        
      
      
        
          
            | Exceptions | 
          
          
            java.lang.IllegalArgumentException | 
            if name does not match the name of a serializable field for the class whose fields are being written, or if the type of the named field is not int | 
          
        
      
     
    
      put
      
      abstract fun put(
    name: String!, 
    val: Any!
): Unit
      Put the value of the named Object field into the persistent field.
      
        
          
            | Parameters | 
          
          
            name | 
            String!: the name of the serializable field | 
          
          
            val | 
            Any!: the value to assign to the field (which may be null) | 
          
        
      
      
        
          
            | Exceptions | 
          
          
            java.lang.IllegalArgumentException | 
            if name does not match the name of a serializable field for the class whose fields are being written, or if the type of the named field is not a reference type | 
          
        
      
     
    
      put
      
      abstract fun put(
    name: String!, 
    val: Long
): Unit
      Put the value of the named long field into the persistent field.
      
        
          
            | Parameters | 
          
          
            name | 
            String!: the name of the serializable field | 
          
          
            val | 
            Long: the value to assign to the field | 
          
        
      
      
        
          
            | Exceptions | 
          
          
            java.lang.IllegalArgumentException | 
            if name does not match the name of a serializable field for the class whose fields are being written, or if the type of the named field is not long | 
          
        
      
     
    
      put
      
      abstract fun put(
    name: String!, 
    val: Short
): Unit
      Put the value of the named short field into the persistent field.
      
        
          
            | Parameters | 
          
          
            name | 
            String!: the name of the serializable field | 
          
          
            val | 
            Short: the value to assign to the field | 
          
        
      
      
        
          
            | Exceptions | 
          
          
            java.lang.IllegalArgumentException | 
            if name does not match the name of a serializable field for the class whose fields are being written, or if the type of the named field is not short | 
          
        
      
     
    
      write
      
      abstract fun write(out: ObjectOutput!): Unit
      Deprecated: This method does not write the values contained by this PutField object in a proper format, and may result in corruption of the serialization stream. The correct way to write PutField data is by calling the java.io.ObjectOutputStream#writeFields() method.
      Write the data and fields to the specified ObjectOutput stream, which must be the same stream that produced this PutField object.
      
        
          
            | Parameters | 
          
          
            out | 
            ObjectOutput!: the stream to write the data and fields to | 
          
        
      
      
        
          
            | Exceptions | 
          
          
            java.io.IOException | 
            if I/O errors occur while writing to the underlying stream | 
          
          
            java.lang.IllegalArgumentException | 
            if the specified stream is not the same stream that produced this PutField object | 
          
        
      
     
  
  
  
    
  
 
  
    
      
      
    
    
      
    
    
  
       
    
    
      
    
  
  
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