Hi all,
I recently came across something really strange and after a couple of days
of debugging, I finally nailed the cause of it. However, I have absolutely no
idea what I am doing wrong or is it just a bug in binary serialization. The
following is a simple example of the code:
using System;
using System.Collecti ons.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime. Serialization.F ormatters.Binar y;
namespace ConsoleApplicat ion5
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
A a = new A();
B b = new B(a);
List<CcList = new List<C>();
for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++)
{
cList.Add(new C("someValue")) ;
}
b.CList = cList;
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
BinaryFormatter objFormatter = new BinaryFormatter ();
objFormatter.Se rialize(stream, b);
}
}
[Serializable]
class A
{
private Dictionary<stri ng, string_dic1 = new Dictionary<stri ng,
string>();
public A()
{
_dic1.Add("key1 ", "value1");
_dic1.Add("key2 ", "value2");
}
}
[Serializable]
class B
{
private List<C_cList = new List<C>();
private A _a;
public B(A a)
{
_a = a;
}
public List<CCList
{
get { return _cList; }
set { _cList = value; }
}
}
[Serializable]
class C
{
private Dictionary<stri ng, string_dic2 = new Dictionary<stri ng,
string>();
private string _value;
public C(string value)
{
_value = value;
}
}
}
If you run the code, you will find that the stream has a length of 4,532,517
bytes. Now, try changing _dic1(Class A) to be a Dictionary<stri ng, object>
and run the code again. Now, the stream length is 462,924 bytes. Why is there
such a big difference just by changing the type? What I noticed also was that
this might be due to the fact that I have another dictionary of the same type
in Class C.
Am I doing something wrong here? If not, is this a bug?
Thanks in advance!! 12 3070
On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:50:00 -0700, ztRon
<zt***@discussi ons.microsoft.c omwrote:
[...]
If you run the code, you will find that the stream has a length of
4,532,517
bytes. Now, try changing _dic1(Class A) to be a Dictionary<stri ng,
object>
and run the code again. Now, the stream length is 462,924 bytes. Why is
there
such a big difference just by changing the type? What I noticed also was
that
this might be due to the fact that I have another dictionary of the same
type
in Class C.
Am I doing something wrong here? If not, is this a bug?
I'll vote bug. But I admit, I'm no serialization expert so I might be
missing something.
But I do agree that it seems remarkable that such a simple change in the
type parameter for a Dictionary<TKey , TValueinstance would produce such
a dramatic difference. And I have in fact confirmed the behavior (albeit
with slightly different numbers as the output...but the relative scale is
the same).
It would be interesting to try to serialize to a more readable format and
see what the specific differences are. I don't have the time at the
moment to explore too much, but it's something you might like to try.
Pete
Sorry my post seems to have a huge white space in between. Reposting it below:
Hi all,
I recently came across something really strange and after a couple of days
of debugging, I finally nailed the cause of it. However, I have absolutely no
idea what I am doing wrong or is it just a bug in binary serialization. The
following is a simple example of the code:
using System;
using System.Collecti ons.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Runtime. Serialization.F ormatters.Binar y;
namespace ConsoleApplicat ion5
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
A a = new A();
B b = new B(a);
List<CcList = new List<C>();
for (int i = 0; i < 10000; i++)
{
cList.Add(new C("someValue")) ;
}
b.CList = cList;
MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
BinaryFormatter objFormatter = new BinaryFormatter ();
objFormatter.Se rialize(stream, b);
}
}
[Serializable]
class A
{
private Dictionary<stri ng, string_dic1 = new Dictionary<stri ng,
string>();
public A()
{
_dic1.Add("key1 ", "value1");
_dic1.Add("key2 ", "value2");
}
}
[Serializable]
class B
{
private List<C_cList = new List<C>();
private A _a;
public B(A a)
{
_a = a;
}
public List<CCList
{
get { return _cList; }
set { _cList = value; }
}
}
[Serializable]
class C
{
private Dictionary<stri ng, string_dic2 = new Dictionary<stri ng,
string>();
private string _value;
public C(string value)
{
_value = value;
}
}
}
If you run the code, you will find that the stream has a length of 4,532,517
bytes. Now, try changing _dic1(Class A) to be a Dictionary<stri ng, object>
and run the code again. Now, the stream length is 462,924 bytes. Why is there
such a big difference just by changing the type? What I noticed also was that
this might be due to the fact that I have another dictionary of the same type
in Class C.
Am I doing something wrong here? If not, is this a bug?
Thanks in advance!!
It would be interesting to try to serialize to a more readable format and
see what the specific differences are. I don't have the time at the
moment to explore too much, but it's something you might like to try.
This example was actually derived from a more complex code if that was what
you meant. And in my unit testing of it, I noticed that the size recently
tripled due to the addition of one dictionary even though there is only ever
one instance of it. This was when I started to debug and finally were able to
pinpoint its cause and came out with a simpler example to express this
problem.
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:20:01 -0700, ztRon
<zt***@discussi ons.microsoft.c omwrote:
>It would be interesting to try to serialize to a more readable format and see what the specific differences are. I don't have the time at the moment to explore too much, but it's something you might like to try.
This example was actually derived from a more complex code if that was
what
you meant.
No, it's not. The code you posted was fine. I'm talking about the
resulting data itself. Serialize less, and to a format like SOAP so that
you can take the two alternatives and inspect them as text files
side-by-side. That should give you some clues as to what differences
exist between the two. And that _might_ lead you to some useful
conclusion as to why such a simple change produces such a dramatic
difference.
If you can accomplish that with the output from the BinaryFormatter , more
power to you. :) But I'd go with a text-format serialization. I naïvely
tried to swap in an XmlSerializer for the BinaryFormatter , but of course
it has different requirements from the regular serialization stuff (for
one, it requires everything to be public that's going to be serialized).
I didn't have the time to make the necessary adjustments, but that could
be something you might try, since the output from the XmlSerializer is yet
again much more readable than SOAP.
Pete
The problem with something like the XmlSerializer is that it does not support
serialization of dictionaries.
Does anyone else have any other ideas to this problem?
Thanks.
"Peter Duniho" wrote:
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:20:01 -0700, ztRon
<zt***@discussi ons.microsoft.c omwrote:
It would be interesting to try to serialize to a more readable format
and
see what the specific differences are. I don't have the time at the
moment to explore too much, but it's something you might like to try.
This example was actually derived from a more complex code if that was
what
you meant.
No, it's not. The code you posted was fine. I'm talking about the
resulting data itself. Serialize less, and to a format like SOAP so that
you can take the two alternatives and inspect them as text files
side-by-side. That should give you some clues as to what differences
exist between the two. And that _might_ lead you to some useful
conclusion as to why such a simple change produces such a dramatic
difference.
If you can accomplish that with the output from the BinaryFormatter , more
power to you. :) But I'd go with a text-format serialization. I naïvely
tried to swap in an XmlSerializer for the BinaryFormatter , but of course
it has different requirements from the regular serialization stuff (for
one, it requires everything to be public that's going to be serialized).
I didn't have the time to make the necessary adjustments, but that could
be something you might try, since the output from the XmlSerializer is yet
again much more readable than SOAP.
Pete
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:17:10 -0700, ztRon
<zt***@discussi ons.microsoft.c omwrote:
The problem with something like the XmlSerializer is that it does not
support
serialization of dictionaries.
Not by default, no. You can customize it though. Of course, it's
entirely possible that the problem is related to the default, automatic
serialization of dictionaries, in which case customizing XmlSerializer to
serialize your dictionaries won't help.
Does anyone else have any other ideas to this problem?
Well, like I said, SOAP is also basically text-based and you can use that
as easily as BinaryFormatter .
Pete
But isn't it the same with SOAP? I think SOAP does not support Generics which
thus means that it doesn't support dictionaries?
Well, like I said, SOAP is also basically text-based and you can use that
as easily as BinaryFormatter .
Pete
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:06:00 -0700, ztRon
<zt***@discussi ons.microsoft.c omwrote:
But isn't it the same with SOAP? I think SOAP does not support Generics
which
thus means that it doesn't support dictionaries?
My recollection is that it does. I admit, I haven't tested it recently to
make sure. But I am under the impression that you can just swap in
SoapFormatter where you have BinaryFormatter , and it will "just work".
If I'm wrong, well...it should only take you a few minutes to find out. :)
Pete
I actually did that yesterday using the SOAPFormatter and it did not work,
which was why I thought maybe you meant something else.
"Peter Duniho" wrote:
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:06:00 -0700, ztRon
<zt***@discussi ons.microsoft.c omwrote:
But isn't it the same with SOAP? I think SOAP does not support Generics
which
thus means that it doesn't support dictionaries?
My recollection is that it does. I admit, I haven't tested it recently to
make sure. But I am under the impression that you can just swap in
SoapFormatter where you have BinaryFormatter , and it will "just work".
If I'm wrong, well...it should only take you a few minutes to find out. :)
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