I have found what I think is anomalous behavior (from what I expected) when changing an element in a context Flow Object Variable that was itself extracted as one object in an array of objects from a object in Context Flow variables. To explain further as demonstrated in this Flow. We create a ar…

In a function node, you can use RED.util.cloneMessage(obj) to create a copy of the object, and then work with that copy down the path.

Changes to Context Flow Variable also changes source array it was extracted from

Steve-Mcl 24 October 2019 05:57 2

You have discovered JavaScript object references.

This behaviour is normal and has been covered a few times though I'm not sure how you would search this subject.

This may help explain, read to last post

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