[UIMA-5532] xmi/json serialization multiple-refs-allowed sometimes fails to serialize item

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0SDK-alpha02, 2.10.0SDK
• Fix Version/s: 2.10.1SDK, 3.0.0SDK-beta
• Component/s: Core Java Framework
• Assignee: Marshall Schor
• Reporter: Marshall Schor
• Created: 12/Aug/17 15:24
• Updated: 21/Aug/17 21:47
• Resolved: 21/Aug/17 21:47

Description

The xmi/json common serialization code made a wrong assumption in the design. It assumed that if a FS referenced from a feature slot marked as MultipleReferencesAllowed, that all other feature slots which might have that FS as a feature slot value also declared those slots as MutlipleReferencesAllowed.

One use case occured where this was not the case. The implementation in that case fails to serialize the shared FS, and subsequent deserialization (of course) fails.