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David Leangen commented on FELIX-5666: -------------------------------------- Oh, and one more question... Do you know of any "tool" hanging around in Felix that can help me compare the result of a converted or deserialized object to a hard-coded object? The issue is that the converted object does not have a predictable order. It would be nice to be able to do a "value-based" equality test like this: {code} assertEquals(expected, actual) {code} even though the ordering of the values are different. > Serializer goes into infinite loop > ---------------------------------- > > Key: FELIX-5666 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-5666 > Project: Felix > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Converter > Reporter: David Leangen > Assignee: David Leangen > > I'm only guessing as to what the problem is, following some stepping through > the code. I could not find any similar existing test cases, but if the > following does not immediately click for [~bosschaert], I will try to add one. > It appears that, when serializing an object to a "DTO-Type" object to a Map, > some kind of backing object is created. > If the backing object contains a field that instantiates the same DTO, then > the loop gets created. > Example: > {code} > public class MyDtoType { > public String id; > public MyDtoType( String anID ) { > id = anID; > } > public static MyDtoType error() { > return new MyDtoType( "ERROR" ); > } > } > {code} > It looks like the serializer keeps calling the error() method infinitely, but > I am not able to easily pinpoint where this happens. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)