Hey all,
I've got a subflow that does a database query to set some global context that I want to call in the middle of a another flow but I don't want the original msg object to get changed in the subflow.
Basically I want the msg that I sent into the subflow to be returned unaltered at the end of the subflow.
I've tried to save the msg to the flow context with flow.set("saved_msg",msg); and then restore the original msg with return flow.get("saved_msg"); but this doesn't seem to work.
I tried it with msg.payload and could successfully save/restore this, but it doesn't work with the msg object for some reason.
What am I missing? Is there a best practice way of saving the current msg context in a subflow?
The example below is a simplified version that illustrates my problem.
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Thanks for helping!
