Values of an instance

If you log an instance you will notice, that there is a lot of additional stuff. In order to hide such stuff and reduce it to the very interesting information, you can use theget-attribute. Calling it with the option plain = true will only return the values of an instance.

  1. Person.create({
  2.   name: 'Rambow',
  3.   firstname: 'John'
  4. }).then(john => {
  5.   console.log(john.get({
  6.     plain: true
  7.   }))
  8. })
  10. // result:
  12. // { name: 'Rambow',
  13. //   firstname: 'John',
  14. //   id: 1,
  15. //   createdAt: Tue, 01 May 2012 19:12:16 GMT,
  16. //   updatedAt: Tue, 01 May 2012 19:12:16 GMT
  17. // }

Hint:You can also transform an instance into JSON by using JSON.stringify(instance). This will basically return the very same as values.