From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nahi@...>
Date: 2001-09-18T13:28:22+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21304] Re: Ruby objects <-> XML: anyone working on this?

Hi Kent,

I'm very sorry for misunderstanding.

> From: NAKAMURA, Hiroshi [mailto:nahi@keynauts.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 10:28 AM

> > Seeing as point 2 is the show-stopper (for me), I'll elaborate.
> > 
> > <CODE>
> > dad = Person.new
> > son = Person.new
> > son.father = dad
> > people = [ dad, son ]
> > aString   = SOAP::Marshal.marshal( people )
> > xdad, xson = SOAP::Marshal.unmarshal( aString )
> > </CODE>
> > 
> > Then 
> > a) xdad.id != xson.father.id
> 
> Try;
>   a = []; p a.id
>   b = Marshal.load( Marshal.dump( a )); p b.id
> Original object and unmarshalled object is not the same thing
> in Ruby.  I think it reasonable.

Definitely xdad and xson.father should be the same object.
xdad.id must be equal to xson.father.id.

It is based on SOAP4R's restriction regarding multi-ref
serialization.

Sorry,
// NaHi