More polite reporting of NotSerializableException

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      If you accidentally store something nonserializable in a local variable, you get a nasty stack trace mentioning org.jboss.marshalling.river.RiverMarshaller.doWriteObject and other things which will make no sense to a user and imply a bug in Workflow rather than in your script.

      RiverWriter should defend better against this. It could replace the bad object with null, after printing a warning in the log. Or it could simply replace it with a pickle that rehydrates to null or throws an exception if you ever resume this flow after a restart. I think replacement with null is preferable since in most cases you did not really need the object to be saved and the flow could have continued without it.

            Assignee:
            Kohsuke Kawaguchi
            Reporter:
            Jesse Glick
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