Task activity received "[\"HelloWorld\"]" instead of string "HelloWorld" passed in task orchestration
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There are two issues here:
**The first one is** that I pass string "HelloWorld" to a task activity in task orchestration, however when I debug I find that the task activity received the string "[\"HelloWorld\"]".
**The second one is** that the task orchestration ran twice(which is weird for me) and when the twice, I got the exception.
"Object reference not set to an instance of an object." the call stack is

My code is very simple: just following the encode video sample but more simple.
1.EncodeOrchestration
```
public class EncodeOrchestration : TaskOrchestration
{
public override async Task RunTask(OrchestrationContext context, string input)
{
Console.WriteLine("The input text is " + input);
string resultFromActivity = await context.ScheduleTask(typeof(EncodeActivity), input);
Console.WriteLine($"The result of {this.GetType().Name} is {resultFromActivity}.");
return resultFromActivity;
}
}
```
2. EncodeActivity
```
public class EncodeActivity : TaskActivity
{
public override string Run(TaskContext context, string activityInput)
{
Console.WriteLine($"{this.GetType().Name} received the input text is as bellow:");
Console.WriteLine(activityInput);
string result = "This is activity.";
return result;
}
}
```
3. I use azure storage create task hub client and create orchestration instance in one application project
```
static void Main(string[] args)
{
//omit some code to initialize task hub client, I use the durable.storage
string orchestrationInput = "HelloWorld3";
var instance = taskHubClient.CreateOrchestrationInstanceAsync(typeof(EncodeOrchestration), orchestrationInput).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
Console.ReadLine();
}
```
4. Then I create another console application project to start task hub worker
```
static void Main(string[] args)
{
//omit some code to initialize task hub worker with the same storage when initializing task hub client
Console.WriteLine("Worker start to run");
var hubworker = .taskHubWorker.AddTaskOrchestrations(typeof(EncodeOrchestration)).AddTaskActivities(typeof(EncodeActivity)).StartAsync().ConfigureAwait(true).GetAwaiter().GetResult();
Console.WriteLine(hubworker.orchestrationService);
Console.ReadLine();
}
```
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