Steps to reproduce:
1. Attaching as an AIR project, simply because that was the easiest way for me to quickly write it to a file and run it.
2. Build and run the AIR application.
3. Click the "Read Problem Serializer" button.
Actual Results:
RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
at flash.utils::ByteArray/readObject()
at io::ProblemSerializer/readExternal()[<path to environment>/SerializationIssue/src/io/ProblemSerializer.as:19]
at flash.filesystem::FileStream/readObject()
at SerializationIssue/readObj()[<path to environment>/SerializationIssue/src/SerializationIssue.mxml:40]
at SerializationIssue/___SerializationIssue_Button2_click()[<path to environment>/SerializationIssue/src/SerializationIssue.mxml:51]
Expected Results:
It to output the following into the TextArea as well as trace it out:
[ProblemSerializer]
arr: [
{ obj: items, }
{ obj: in, }
{ obj: problem, }
{ obj: serializer, }
]
Workaround (if any):
Bug
Resolved
Reading All bytes from an IDataInput into a ByteArray and calling readObject on that ByteArray causes RangeError #2006 when deserializing an array of anonymous objects
When an externalizable class's readExternal method is invoked, are the reference tables used to look up the Object and Traits not available to a ByteArray that has read the remaining data out of the buffer?
It seems that if the reference tables are not available to/used by the ByteArray this would explain why
function readExternal(input:IDataInput):void {
...
var arr:Array = input.readObject() as Array;
}
would work but
function readExternal(input:IDataInput):void {
var ba:ByteArray = new ByteArray();
input.readBytes(ba);
...
var arr:Array = ba.readObject() as Array;
}
would not work.