0007506: Opened morphs are infinitely recursive when sent #storeOn:

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0007506

[Squeak] Morphic

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04-16-10 03:56

04-16-10 03:57

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wiz

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Summary

0007506: Opened morphs are infinitely recursive when sent #storeOn:

Description

In a fresh squeak 9948 (RC5)

Open new project
Open workspace
Type:
"Morph new openCenteredInWorld storeOn: (foo := String new writeStream) ."

Doit.

After a while stop with Alt-.

In the debugger look at the variable aStream.

Note the infinite loop.

Additional Information

Basicly an opened morph tries to store its owner
Its owner tries to store its submorphs which include the opened morph.

The #storeOn: is very simplistic storing ivars index by index.

I did this in a context of curiosity and trying to find a way of serializing a morph in words s.t. the essentials of the morph could be recreated.

Since any use of this would have caused an immediately noticable problem I have concluded that no one uses this selector with morphs.

So there in no priority to solving the problem by itself.

There is a reasonable need to serialize a world other than the way it is currently done in projects.

a smarter, working StoreOn: would be useful for this.

Basically, store ivars by name. Keep a set of visited morphs and note the second time you are visiting to avoid the recursion.

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Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
04-16-10 03:56	wiz	New Issue
04-16-10 03:56	wiz	Status	new => assigned
04-16-10 03:56	wiz	Assigned To	=> KenCausey
04-16-10 03:57	wiz	Assigned To	KenCausey =>
04-16-10 03:57	wiz	Category	Any => Morphic
04-16-10 03:57	wiz	Description Updated

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