Setting msg.something

[zunder1990]

I am working on making changes to flows that have no be changed or ran since summer if last year. Back then I had heavily made use of msg.something = something in function nodes. I am changing to make to the code but something is working.

Where is like what I have in the node from back then
msg.TalkID = msg.payload[0].TalkID.toString();
This would set msg.TalkID to what was returned from mysql.

In testing I have even tried msg.TalkID = 1; and cant not get it to set.

TLDR has something changed in nodered that will not let me set msg.something if so what is the work around.

[zenofmud]

Can you paste the code from your function node in a reply. Also connect a debug node to the output of what ever is feeding the function and show us what the msg entering the function node looks like.

[zunder1990]

Here is a sample flow

[{"id":"7c739125.fa17a8","type":"tab","label":"Flow 1","disabled":false,"info":""},{"id":"627e2c20.b552b4","type":"inject","z":"7c739125.fa17a8","name":"","topic":"","payload":"","payloadType":"date","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"x":141,"y":173,"wires":[["7bd9fcda.5c39e4"]]},{"id":"7bd9fcda.5c39e4","type":"function","z":"7c739125.fa17a8","name":"setting var","func":"msg.ID = 1;\nmsg.filename = \"test.mkv\";\nreturn msg;\n","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"x":346,"y":176,"wires":[["8991332.ae6cc5"]]},{"id":"8991332.ae6cc5","type":"debug","z":"7c739125.fa17a8","name":"","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"false","x":577.5,"y":173,"wires":[]}]

Here is debug

version 1.0.3 of node red

[Paul-Reed]

In your flow, you have the debug node set to msg only instead of complete msg object.
If I change it to show the complete msg object, I see this in the debug sidebar. Is this what you expected to see?
If not, what did you expect to see?

[zunder1990]

OMG WTF, I have been pulling my hair out for the past few weeks over this. Thank you for your help