Parse.Object deep serialization including Pointers, Relations, ACLs

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#1

Whelp, the title pretty much sums up the question

  • is there a method to ‘deep serialize’ a ParseObject, including all related objects - pointers, relations, ACLs and any other related Parse objects.?

  • and if not, what would be the right approach? Serialize the starting object, and iterate recursively looking for a toJSON() method perhaps?

I’m sure this has been asked or done before but I can’t find anything in this forum or in the docs.

Update: i guess what I’m looking for is a method to create the data POJO as seen when you print the contents of attributes to the screen.

Thanks.

#2

I might be understanding your questions incorrectly, but are just trying to fetch all nested Parse Objects? If so, you can use includeAll in JS:

https://parseplatform.org/Parse-SDK-JS/api/3.1.0/Parse.Query.html#includeAll

If you find, first, or even fetch with includeAll and then printed your object to the console it should show all nested items.

#3

You should be able to use new Parse.Object.fromJSON, but your pointers and relations will have to have types, such as:

const json = {
  className: 'MyObject',
   file: {
     __type: 'File',
     name: 'parse.txt',
     url: 'http://files.parsetfss.com/a/parse.txt',
   }
}
const obj = new Parse.Object.fromJSON(json);
#4

No, in order tackle the data reactivity we spoke about on the other thread, I want to create a recursive non-native representation of the object where pointers, relations, ACLs etc have been substituted for their POJO-like representations (ie. non-frozen attributes) so I can access the aggregate data like so: member.membership.term - three related nested objects … which in parse would be more like member.get('membership').get('term') - again, it’s all about trying to keep the usefulness of parse (ie relations, querying etc) and do it as natively as possible … whilst adding data reactivity in Vue.