Guid and List<T> in same class = nasty crash #207
Description
When the DTO has both Guid and List as properties, serializer only serializes the List<> and omits Guid property completely. Trying to de-serialize such data results in a nasty nasty exception:
Managed Debugging Assistant 'FatalExecutionEngineError' has detected a problem in C:\blabla\bin\Debug\Serializers.vshost.exe.
Additional information: The runtime has encountered a fatal error. The address of the error was at 0xdf24bc2a, on thread 0x3a40. The error code is 0xc0000005. This error may be a bug in the CLR or in the unsafe or non-verifiable portions of user code. Common sources of this bug include user marshaling errors for COM-interop or PInvoke, which may corrupt the stack.
Short sample code:
Dto
public class SimpleItem
{
public Guid Id { get; }
public List<int> Ints { get; }
public SimpleItem(Guid id, List<int> ints)
{
Id = id;
Ints = ints;
}
}Serialization
var context = new SerializationContext();
var serializer = context.GetSerializer<SimpleItem>();
var item = new SimpleItem(Guid.NewGuid(), new List<int>() { 5, 11 });
var serializedItem = serializer.PackSingleObject(item);
var deserializedItem = serializer.UnpackSingleObject<SimpleItem>(serializedItem );Using this stupid code snippet, serializedItem is only 4 bytes long, which contains only the List and Guid prop is not there. Trying to unpack causes the exception above.
Now what I found is IF we modify the Guid Id {get;} property to have a public setter:
public Guid Id { get; set; }Then everything works as expected and data is packed and unpacked correctly. And its weird cause setter makes PACKING not to break anymore...
I tried a few other combinations:
Works
public class SimpleItem
{
public Guid Id { get; set }
public List<int> Ints { get; set }
}Does NOT work*
public class SimpleItem
{
public readonly Guid Id;
public List<int> Ints { get; }
public SimpleItem(Guid id, List<int> ints)
{
Id = id;
Ints = ints;
}
}Works
public class SimpleItem
{
public Guid Id { get; }
public SimpleItem(Guid id)
{
Id = id;
}
}
``
**Works**
```cs
public class SimpleItem
{
public List<int> Ints { get; }
public SimpleItem(List<int> ints)
{
Ints = ints;
}
}Works
public class SimpleItem
{
public Guid Id { get; }
public JustInts Ints { get; }
public SimpleItem(Guid id, JustInts ints)
{
Id = id;
Ints = ints;
}
}
public class JustInts
{
public List<int> Ints { get; }
public JustInts(List<int> ints)
{
Ints = ints;
}
}Does NOT work. Messes up completely and debugger shows Id field as List and Ints field is null*
public class SimpleItem
{
public string Id { get; }
public List<int> Ints { get; }
public SimpleItem(string id, List<int> ints)
{
Id = id;
Ints = ints;
}
}Same as above...
public class SimpleItem
{
public long Id { get; }
public List<int> Ints { get; }
public SimpleItem(long id, List<int> ints)
{
Id = id;
Ints = ints;
}
}So as it seems as long as Guid (or some other primitive type) and List are at the same level (class), and Guid property does not have a public setter, something wrong happens.
I have not tried other collection types instead of List.