[protobuf] Protobuf-net - list of objects with parent reference

[Jan Kowalski]

I have a simple class with reference to parent object. All objects are in 
one list (even parent objects). Is it possible to keep references 
references after deserialization? 

In my code I have something like this:

    [ProtoContract]
    public class ProtoItem
    {
        [ProtoMember(1)]
        public int Value { get; set; }

        [ProtoMember(2, AsReference = true)]
        public ProtoItem BaseItem { get; set; }
    }

And I use it like that:


 static void Main()
        {
            var itemParent = new ProtoItem { Value = 1 };
            var item2 = new ProtoItem { Value = 2, BaseItem = itemParent };
            var item3 = new ProtoItem { Value = 3, BaseItem = itemParent };

            var parentListToWrite = new List<ProtoItem> {itemParent, item2, 
item3};

            const string file = "protofile.txt";
            try { File.Delete(file); }
            catch { };

            using (var fs = File.OpenWrite(file)) { Serializer.Serialize(fs,    
                 parentListToWrite); }

        List<ProtoItem> readList;
        using (var fs = File.OpenRead(file)) { readList = 
            Serializer.Deserialize<List<ProtoItem>>(fs); }

        if (readList[0] == readList[2].BaseItem)
        {
            //how to make it equal?
        }
        if (readList[0] == readList[1].BaseItem)
        {
            //how to make it equal?
        }
    }


Is that possible to deserialize it that last two equations work?
jan.

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