Shorthand for DESerializeJSON( SerializeJSON( obj ) )

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I don’t know about you, but while I write code I often use this notation:

DESerializeJSON( SerializeJSON( obj ) )

which is also very long.

Can’t we create a shorthand for it?

A very simple
extractData()
?

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there’s already obj.toJson() but the obj.deserializeJSON() is quite long

Nah, just write a function wrapper if you need to. extractData() isn’t even self explanatory

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As an aside from your question, can I ask why you are deserializing an object that you just serialized? Is it possible you can just call duplicate() to achieve the same outcome?

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Because i can see better the tree structure of the data parsed by cfdump.
With only SerializeJSON() I would only see a string.

It’s not so?

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why not just dump(obj) then?

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I’m guessing there are booleans or other things that serialize changes so it’s useful to see after serializing?

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Obj is an object.

Cfdump shows all methods and only at the end only the properties with the data inside. The html created is very large and difficult to read.

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Still very long…

I just need the data. So:

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I’m a little surprised that only I do this… :sweat_smile:

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what does dump(obj.toString()) or dump(getMetaData(obj)) show?

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Also, cfdump has the ability to hide functions as a property. cfdump( showudfs = false ). That might be helpful. Though, that might just collapse them, not remove them - I can’t remember off hand. But, I understand what you are trying to do.

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dump(obj.toString())

Component [bean.Patient] has no function with name [toString]

dump( toString( bean ) ) ;

Can’t cast Component [Patient] to String

dump(getMetaData(obj))

All metadatas of object, but not data.

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We use this on our objects when debugging to do something similar:
dump(obj.toStruct())

	<cffunction name="toStruct" access="public" returntype="struct" output="false" hint="Returns internal data. Use for debugging only.">
		<cfset local.instance = duplicate(variables) />
		<cfloop collection="#local.instance#" item="local.instanceKey">
			<cfif not isSimpleValue(local.instance[local.instanceKey])>
				<cfset structDelete(local.instance, local.instanceKey) />
			</cfif>
		</cfloop>
		<cfreturn local.instance />
	</cffunction>
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And stealing a page from your book, this would output the same thing:

	<cffunction name="toStruct" access="public" returntype="struct" output="false" hint="Returns internal data. Use for debugging only.">
		<cfreturn DESerializeJSON( SerializeJSON( this ) ) />
	</cffunction>
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