Yes, I think there was recent discussion about inconsistent stream
behavior with regard to #contents.

This also works:

myObject := MethodReference asClassDefinition.
ba :=  ((ReferenceStream on: ByteArray new writeStream asBinaryOrTextStream)
     nextPut: myObject ;
     yourself) contents.
(ReferenceStream on: ba readStream) next

So the serializer is ok, the issue relates only to stream positioning.

Dave


On Sat, Sep 07, 2013 at 02:07:41PM -0400, Bob Arning wrote:
> Well, this seems to work:
> 
> 
> | ba myObject rs |
> myObject := MethodReference asClassDefinition.
> rs _ ReferenceStream on: (MultiByteBinaryOrTextStream on: ByteArray new).
> rs nextPut: myObject.
> ba :=  rs reset; contents.
> (ReferenceStream on: (MultiByteBinaryOrTextStream with: ba) reset) next
> 
> Cheers,
> Bob
> 
> On 9/7/13 1:33 PM, Chris Muller wrote:
> >I just noticed 'browse class versions' is still not working with the
> >new-and-improved SqueakSource prototype because maybe there's a bug
> >with serializing an object to/from a ByteArray with Squeak?
> >
> >I had wanted to use MultiByteBinaryOrTextStream to serialize to a
> >ByteArray, but when I try this:
> >
> >| ba myObject |
> >myObject := MethodReference asClassDefinition.
> >ba :=  ((ReferenceStream on: (MultiByteBinaryOrTextStream on: ByteArray 
> >new))
> >      nextPut: myObject ;
> >      yourself) contents.
> >(ReferenceStream on: (MultiByteBinaryOrTextStream on: ba)) next
> >
> >Produces an error:  'The file did not exist in this directory'.   Huh?
> >  What file?  What directory?
> >
> >I've only ever used my own serializer since about 2004, which I think
> >is much better but obviously for in-image stuff I have to use
> >ReferenceStream.
> >
> >Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> 

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