Unexpected results from Model.create

[OscarGodson]

Lets say I have:

  create: function (req, res) {
    Model.create({
      title: req.param('title'),
      value: req.param('value'),
    }).done(function (err, model) {
      if (err) {
        res.send(500, {error: 'DB error'});
      }
      else {
        res.send(model);
      }
    });
  }

It returns

{
    "title": "Hello world",
    "value": 12,
    "createdAt": "2013-07-12T08:04:57.297Z",
    "updatedAt": "2013-07-12T08:04:57.297Z",
    "id": 2,
    "values": {
        "title": "Hello world",
        "value": 12,
        "createdAt": "2013-07-12T08:04:57.297Z",
        "updatedAt": "2013-07-12T08:04:57.297Z",
        "id": 2
    }
}

1. Is this expected for you guys?
2. Why is the data repeated in a values property? What's the "value" of that (see what I did there)?
3. If 1 is true, should I always res.send(model.values)?

[particlebanana]

This is the expected behavior in the current version 0.8.x. You are correct that you should use res.send(model.values) however this has been fixed in 0.9.x which should be out Monday.

In 0.9.x you can just call res.send(model) and it will return only the attributes. Or if you need to filter the attributes being returned you can write a toJSON instance method on your model and use res.send(model.toJSON()) more info on that is: https://github.com/balderdashy/sails-wiki/blob/0.9/models.md#toobjecttojson-instance-methods

I'd say use res.send(model) for now so you don't need to worry about updating that for 0.9.x.