Issue with serialization?

[Alex-Sand-0]

Hi,
I am struggling trying to save and load my story, but the story I reload fails with some weird error.
More specifically, I do this:

        var story = Compile();
        var json = story.ToJson();  // serialize 
        var story2 = new Story(json); // deserialize
        var json2 = story2.ToJson(); // serialize again
        var story3 = new Story(json2); // deserialize again

• "story" and "story2" can be run with no issue. Running "story3" produces an error.
• I also observe that json and json2 are different

I included a minimal example below.
Any idea of what I am doing wrong? Thanks for your help :)

class Program
    {


        const string rawink = @"== mytestknot == 
    -> hello
    
    = hello 
        Hi, {hello>1:still} no issue there. 
            // not that the problem diseapear if I remove {hello>1:still}

        + bla
        -> DONE    

";

        static Story Compile()
        {
            var compiler = new Ink.Compiler(rawink);
            var story = compiler.Compile();
            return story;
        }

        static void Check(Story story)
        {
            story.ChoosePathString("mytestknot");
            try
            {
                var str1 = story.ContinueMaximally();
                Console.WriteLine(str1);
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Failed");
                Console.WriteLine(e);
            }
        }

        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            var story = Compile();
            var json = story.ToJson();  // serialize 
            var story2 = new Story(json); // deserialize
            var json2 = story2.ToJson(); // serialize again
            var story3 = new Story(json2); // deserialize again

            // the json do not match ?!
            Console.WriteLine($"json==json2  {json == json2}");


            // no more changes in the jsons
            var json3 = story3.ToJson();
            Console.WriteLine($"json2==json3  {json2 == json3}");

            // chack that no story has errors
            Console.WriteLine( $" any errors? { story.hasError} { story2.hasError} { story3.hasError}" );

            // initial story works
            Console.WriteLine("inital story");
            Check(story);
            Check(story);

            // story deserialized from first json works
            Console.WriteLine("story deserialized from story.ToJson");
            Check(story2);
            Check(story2);

            // story deserialized from json2 fails
            Console.WriteLine("story3");
            Check(story3); // This one throws an exception
            Check(story3);

            Console.WriteLine();
            Console.WriteLine(json);
            Console.WriteLine(json2);
            Console.WriteLine("DONE");

        }



    }

Here are the two jsons:
{"inkVersion":20,"root":[[["done",{"#n":"g-0"}],null],"done",{"mytestknot":[{"->":".^.hello"},{"hello":[["^Hi, ","ev",{"CNT?":".^.^"},1,">","/ev",[{"->":".^.b","c":true},{"b":["^still",{"->":".^.^.^.7"},null]}],"nop","^ no issue there.","\n",["ev",{"^->":"mytestknot.hello.0.10.$r1"},{"temp=":"$r"},"str",{"->":".^.s"},[{"#n":"$r1"}],"/str","/ev",{"*":".^.^.c-0","flg":2},{"s":["^bla",{"->":"$r","var":true},null]}],{"c-0":["ev",{"^->":"mytestknot.hello.0.c-0.$r2"},"/ev",{"temp=":"$r"},{"->":".^.^.10.s"},[{"#n":"$r2"}],"\n","done",null]}],{"#f":1}]}]}],"listDefs":{}}

{"inkVersion":20,"root":[[["done",{"#n":"g-0"}],null],"done",{"mytestknot":[{"->":".^.hello.0"},{"hello":[["^Hi, ","ev",{"CNT?":"^.^"},1,">","/ev",[{"->":".^.b.0","c":true},{"b":["^still",{"->":".^.^.^.7"},null]}],"nop","^ no issue there.","\n",["ev",{"^->":"mytestknot.hello.0.10.$r1"},{"temp=":"$r"},"str",{"->":".^.s.0"},[{"#n":"$r1"}],"/str","/ev",{"*":".^.^.c-0","flg":2},{"s":["^bla",{"->":"$r","var":true},null]}],{"c-0":["ev",{"^->":"mytestknot.hello.0.c-0.$r2"},"/ev",{"temp=":"$r"},{"->":".^.^.10.s.0"},[{"#n":"$r2"}],"\n","done",null]}],{"#f":1}]}]}],"listDefs":{}}

Edit:

• I use Ink V1.0.0
• I had forgotten to include the error message i get:

Ink.Runtime.StoryException: Ink had 1 error. It is strongly suggested that you assign an error handler to story.onError. The first issue was: RUNTIME ERROR: (mytestknot.hello.0.2): Read count for target ( - on ) unknown.
at Ink.Runtime.Story.ContinueInternal(Single millisecsLimitAsync)
at Ink.Runtime.Story.ContinueMaximally()
at inkbug.Program.Check(Story story) in C:\Users\33616\sources\inkbug\Program.cs:line 35

[Alex-Sand-0]

Ok, so I figured out what I was doing wrong,
I should save only the state of the story, and not the story itself, as proposed in the doc: https://github.com/inkle/ink/blob/master/Documentation/RunningYourInk.md#saving-and-loading

However, the behavior I reported in the previous post still looks buggy. Is it really the intended behavior? Maybe it is worth documenting explicitly that it does not work?