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Also here: bugs.swift.org

///// main.swift
import Foundation

let name: String = "my name"
let age: UInt32  = 100
let myData: Data = "helloworld".data(using: .utf8)!

let properties: [String: Any] = [
    "name": name,
    "age": age,
    "data": myData
]

do {
    // pack
    let packedData = try PropertyListSerialization.data(fromPropertyList: properties, format: .binary, options: 0)
    
    // unpack
    let unpackedProps = try PropertyListSerialization.propertyList(from: packedData, options: [], format: nil)
    
    guard let newProperties = unpackedProps as? [String: Any] else {
        fatalError("error: not a dictionary type")
    }
    
    for item in newProperties {
        print("# \(item.key) => \(item.value)")
    }
    
} catch {
    print("serialize message error: \(error)")
    exit(0)
}

print("all done")

the output result on my macOS:

name => my name
age => 100
data => <68656c6c 6f776f72 6c64>

the output result on Ubuntu server:

name => my name
age => 100
data => 0 bytes . // <---- HERE

Problem here is the data decoded is "0 bytes".

Environment info:

Ubuntu 16.04

$ cat /etc/*release

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.04.4 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS"
VERSION_ID="16.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="Bugs : Ubuntu"
VERSION_CODENAME=xenial
UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial

$ swift --version

Swift version 4.1.2 (swift-4.1.2-RELEASE)
Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

macOS 10.14 Beta (18A314h)

$ swift --version

Apple Swift version 4.2 (swiftlang-1000.0.16.7 clang-1000.10.25.3)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin18.0.0

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Bugs in the Linux implementation of Foundation can go to https://bugs.swift.org under the "Foundation" component. Thanks for finding this!

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@macwish: If you end up writing a bug, can you link to it here?

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