Control serialization tests...

[Chad Schoettger]

I have just started writing some controls serialization tests and have come up with a couple of questions about the expected behavior of a control being serialized/deserialized.

1) When a control is deserialized should it receive an 'onCreate' event?  The behavior I am seeing is that this event is not being sent to the control.

2) When I try to serialize a control whose impl contains a reference to ResourceContext, the serialization fails due to a 'NotSerializiable' exception for the ResourceContextImpl class.  This doesn't seem right.

Here's the code from my test (I've also attached all relevant files) perhaps I am not serializing the control properly (it seems like the proper method though).  Any thoughts /comments from the list are appreciated.

     @Control
    private ControlSerialization _serializationControl;

    public void testSimpleSerialization1() throws Exception {
        assertNotNull(_serializationControl);

        _serializationControl.setControlState(6);
        _serializationControl.clearLifecycleEvents();

        // serialize the contents of the ctcc
        ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("sertest.tmp"));
        ControlContainerContext ccc = getControlContainerContext();
        ControlTestContainerContext ctcc = (ControlTestContainerContext)ccc;
        ctcc.writeChildren(oos);
        oos.close();

        // change the control state of the in-memory control, sanity check
        _serializationControl.setControlState(2);

        // deserialize the ctcc contents
        ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(new FileInputStream("sertest.tmp"));
        ctcc.readChildren(ois);
        ois.close();

        // now find the value of the deserialized control in the ctcc
        Object[] ctrls = ctcc.toArray();
        ControlSerialization deserializedControl = null;
        for (Object c : ctrls) {
            if (c instanceof ControlSerializationBean && !c.equals(_serializationControl)) {
                deserializedControl = (ControlSerialization)c;
                break;
            }
        }

        assertNotNull(deserializedControl);
        assertEquals(6, deserializedControl.getControlState());
    }