Issue with serialize/deserialize Hashtable which has Value the same as Key

[nstvsn]

The GroBuf misses values if the value is the same as a key. So if key == "testval" and value == "testval", so after serialization/deserialization your hashtable["testval"] will be null.

Steps to reproduce (just pseudo-code):

1. Create simple Hashtable ht = new Hashtable();
2. hashtable.Add("testval", "testval")
   3, serializer.Serialize(hashtable) and then serializer.Deserialize(byte[]....)
3. check that deserialized hashtable["testval"] == null

[homuroll]

Hmm, this test passes:
var ht = new Hashtable();
ht.Add("testval", "testval");
var bytes = serializer.Serialize(ht);
var ht2 = serializer.Deserialize(bytes);
Assert.AreEqual("testval", ht2["testval"]);

May be you tested on some old version?

[nstvsn]

Hi,
I have figured out the issue. It happens if serializer is created with GroBufOptions.PackReferences.

[homuroll]

Ok, I'l look at it. By the way do you really need to use GroBufOptions.PackReferences? GroBuf works slower with this option, we only used when there was a need to serialize/deserialize graphs with loops.