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LOELeague of Extraordinary FoundryVTT Developers
Created by WHITESPINE on 5/29/2023 in #system-development
Migrating to DataModels - how to get data pre `cleanData`?
Hello. In the lancer system, we have some old fields in our Actor/Item models what predate the existence of UUIDs - they instead used a "RegRef" structure to achieve basically the same thing as a UUID now does. For context, a regref example: 
{ 
  id: "B1stOACZSDZAJLA7", 
  fallback_lid: "dep_ms_pattern_a_smoke_charges_smoke_mine", 
  type: "deployable", 
  reg_name: "game" 
}
{ 
  id: "B1stOACZSDZAJLA7", 
  fallback_lid: "dep_ms_pattern_a_smoke_charges_smoke_mine", 
  type: "deployable", 
  reg_name: "game" 
}
Going forward, we'd prefer these just be a UUID string represented via a slightly modified StringField. The issue we are running into, though, is that it is difficult to migrate this data considering that the _source data of all actors is being modified via the DataModel._initializeSource -> BaseActor._initializeSource -> DataModel.cleanData, which destroys the above object and replaces it with "[object Object]". I tried accessing them via game.actors._source but it appears that the transformations in cleanData affect that data too. Is there a good way around this? Thanks
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