NR Conundrum sett flow context changes global context

I'm trying to understand how it could be that after reading global context into a flow context, checking for the existence of a value ("on") in the flow context in order to determine what groups I need to serve, that action in itself changes the global context. I've asked a friend and we are getting no where.

Try the code I hope it is exemplary as a debugging routine.....I can't see where it would go as it does.....

This will allow you to build the global, array and fish for data...

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Good night y'all :slight_smile:

Javascript store object by reference.
So setting flow to a variable sets the variable to reference the same memory. If you then alter either the other will reference the new value.

you will need to clone it using RED.util.cloneMessage(flow.get("string"))

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Well, i tried doing that object.assign and that does work, not sure if this is the way but hey

var room_data = global.get("house[0].room[5]");
Object.assign(room_data, global.get("house[0].room[5]") ); 

I AM still wondering why a simple

for (let index = 0; index < nummer; index++) { /** run through array */
        if (lightgroup[index].adaptive == "on") { /** if LG is set to adaptive, save ent_id */
            flow.set("set_group[" + index + "]", lightgroup[index].entity_id); /** array with all groups to serve */
        }
    }

and the if (lightgroup[index].adaptive == "on")part of it specifically actual changes the values....

single equal a = b, set value of b to a.
double equal a==b (false), a==a (true), 10 == twelve (false), 12 == twelve (true), checks (with string conversion)
triple equal  a === a(false) is a NOT statement.

Which one checks AND changes the values to check? Where does that happen?

this is the array before the above code runs (value for adapt are on, off,

const lightgroup = [{"entity_id":"light.group_greenrm","adaptive":"on"},{"entity_id":"light.group_tvbas","adaptive":"off"}]

but aftwards the off changed to on

const lightgroup = [{"entity_id":"light.group_greenrm","adaptive":"on"},{"entity_id":"light.group_tvbas","adaptive":"on"}]

So where does checking if equal, make equal?

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