Deserialization "object" type

[Sashok9203]

Example:
object test;
int i = 12;
test = i;
MessagePackFormatter formatter = new MessagePackFormatter();
byte[] bytes = formatter.Serialize(test);
test = formatter.Deserialize< object >(bytes);
Debug.Log((int)test); ---- error-----
Debug.Log(Convert.ToInt32(test)); - ---works---

if in the code change int to float code works
With unity types(Vector3,Quanternion and others), the error is the same ...

Am I doing something wrong?

[taka-oyama]

Unfortunately, MessagePack doesn't preserve the type for integer values.
This is what's happening in the background.

• It encodes 12 as byte type, since that uses the least amount of space for integer values.
• It tries to decode it as object but message pack format sees that it's store as byte so it decodes it as byte.

So if you try Debug.Log((byte)test); it will work.
The reason why Convert.ToInt32 works is because it's converting byte to Int32 internally.

[taka-oyama]

I suggest you do explicit deserialization by using generics instead of using casting.

formatter.Deserialize<int>(bytes);

[Sashok9203]

In my case, this "formatter.Deserialize< int >(bytes);" -
this is not my option .
In my code where I use msgpack-unity ,i am serializing a dictionary with objects (Dictionary< int,object >)
accordingly, I cannot use for each value explicit deserialization.
Will have to replace the "object" with "byte[]" in the dictionary,and serialize each value separately ...
Thanks for the help.:)

[taka-oyama]

I will try and see if I can add an option to make this work

[Sashok9203]

It would be nice :)
Do not drop this project(msgpack-unity), it is very useful for simple tasks