Made one private serializer class public to allow for improved internal testing.

Author: connelly38

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/).
 
+## Unreleased
+
+### Changed
+- Made one private serializer class public to allow for improved internal testing.
+
 ## [5.3.4] 2022-06-16
 
 NOTE: there was briefly a 5.3.3 release available on GitHub. This release is functionally

driver/src/main/java/oracle/nosql/driver/ops/serde/PrepareRequestSerializer.java

@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@
 /**
  * Prepare a query
  */
-class PrepareRequestSerializer extends BinaryProtocol implements Serializer {
+public class PrepareRequestSerializer extends BinaryProtocol
+                                      implements Serializer {
 
     @Override
     public void serialize(Request request,