Interesting problem anyone seen this?

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I am wanting to populate a form from an entity, and didn’t see anything in ColdBox that might do the trick. So I began to roll my own and came across this problem where the previously saved data is grabbed.

var objMember = ORMService.new(‘Member’);

var objData = getMetaData(objMember).properties;

writeDump(objData); abort;

Now if I dump objMember it is 100% empty as expected, but the moment I use getMetaData, it populates the objData with previous data from a previous entity save.

Anyone seen this, know how to get around it?

Regards,

Andrew Scott

http://www.andyscott.id.au/

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The only thing I have seen with metadata is that in cf9 it is cached, meaning that if you do a direct reference and manipulate it in any way, the changes remain in effect. This is a CF issue as far as I have seen it. So everything we do in ColdBox with metadata we try to either duplicate it or not modify it.

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Yeah I figured that it was cached, it just through me that I was creating a completely new entity. Kinda makes sense for performance issues.

But if you have a better way of taking the entity and populating a form, I would appreciate it. Was hopping that CB had something, I could see a getProperties, but I also needed the values of the properties as well.