[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBRULES-2048) object references are not shared when deserialized

object references are not shared when deserialized -------------------------------------------------- Key: JBRULES-2048 URL: https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBRULES-2048 Project: JBoss Drools Issue Type: Bug Security Level: Public(Everyone can see) Components: drools-compiler (expert) Affects Versions: 5.0.0.CR1 Environment: 1.6.0_10 Reporter: Michal Bali Assignee: Mark Proctor Fix For: FUTURE Attachments: patch to rev 25427.txt Hi, The java.io.ObjectOutputStream API specifies that: "Multiple references to a single object are encoded using a reference sharing mechanism so that graphs of objects can be restored to the same shape as when the original was written. " Let's say that a knowledge session contains one fact. We serialize the knowledge session and the fact into one output stream. Then deserialize the session and the fact. The object references will be different. In my opinion this is a bug. Attached is a unit test to show this. Example use case: This can happen for example if the stateful knowledge session is stored within a HTTP servlet session. The HTTP servlet session can contain other objects that are part of the stateful knowledge session. When the HTTP servlet session is serialized and deserialized the object references will be different and it is for example no longer possible to do session.getFactHandleByIdentity(...). Please note that this issue might be fixed by fixing JBRULES-1925. Thank you. Best Regards, Michal