Optional when serialized or deserialized results in an array

[aashokgithub]

Optional fields when they are serialized or deserialized is resulting in an array rather than and type of or None value

[JordonPhillips]

Can you give a specific example? We've got a lot of tests that exercise serializing and deserializing optional fields, but maybe you're running into a case we're not testing that's exercising some bug