How to generate serial version UID in Intellij

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When I used Eclipse it had a nice feature to generate serial version UID   But what to do in IntelliJ    How to choose or generate identical serial version UID in IntelliJ   And what to do when you modify old class   If you haven t specify the id  it is generated at runtime

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Without any plugins  You just need to enable highlight   Idea v 2016  2017 and 2018  previous versions may have same or similar settings   File - gt  Settings - gt  Editor - gt  Inspections - gt  Java - gt  Serialization issues - gt  Serializable class without  serialVersionUID  - set flag and click  OK    For Macs  Settings is under IntelliJ IDEA - gt  Preferences      Now  if your class implements Serializable  you will see highlight and alt Enter on class name will ask you to generate private static final long serialVersionUID  UPD  a faster way to find this setting - you might use hotkey Ctrl Shift A  find action   type Serializable class without  serialVersionUID  - the first is the one

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with in the code editor  Open the class you want to create the UID for    Right click -  Generate -  SerialVersionUID  You may need to have the GenerateSerialVersionUID plugin installed for this to work

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IntelliJ IDEA Plugins   GenerateSerialVersionUID https   plugins jetbrains com plugin  idea amp id 185  very nice  very easy to install  you can install that from plugins menu  select install from disk  select the jar file you unpacked in the lib folder  restart  control   ins  and it pops up to generate serial UID from menu  love it   -

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Easiest method  Alt Enter on  private static final long serialVersionUID       IntelliJ will underline the space after the    put your cursor on it and hit alt Enter  Option Enter on Mac   You ll get a popover that says  Randomly Change serialVersionUID Initializer   Just hit enter  and it ll populate that space with a random long

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Install GenerateSerialVersionUID plugin

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