Avoid 'Query data' in results

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1

Hi, I realised that after doing a query with CakePHP (3.x) you get the specified data, but also some kind of query results. The following controller code…

$userQuery = $this->Users->find('all')
                ->where(['username' => 'tester']);
        
        $userR = $userQuery->first();

debug($userR);

…Outputs the following:

object(App\Model\Entity\User) {

	'id' => (int) 2,
	'username' => 'tester',
	'password' => '$2y$10$.yhyhz9uoLhUk8eQbEYb0Okk33z42kBztsk7iuYj5nvbwctUbOE7S',
	'role' => 'user',
	'name' => 'Test Account',
	'approved' => false,
	'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {

		'time' => '2016-07-03T00:00:00+00:00',
		'timezone' => 'UTC',
		'fixedNowTime' => false
	
	},
	'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {

		'time' => '2016-07-03T00:00:00+00:00',
		'timezone' => 'UTC',
		'fixedNowTime' => false
	
	},
	'[new]' => false,
	'[accessible]' => [
		'*' => true
	],
	'[dirty]' => [],
	'[original]' => [],
	'[virtual]' => [],
	'[errors]' => [],
	'[invalid]' => [],
	'[repository]' => 'Users'

}

The last eight entries have keys with brackets and are not in the model.
Where did these entries come from? Is there a way of avoiding or purging them?

Thanks in advance!

2

They are the entity class’ properties. Why do you want to get rid of them? They create no harm.

3

Ah, so that’s where they come from.

As a part of my cookie ‘stay logged in’ code I need to log a user in without having them type their password, so I use $myUser = $this->User->get(...) followed by Auth->setUser($myUser).
This however returns errors because of the eight extra array entries that are not part of the User model, so that’s why.

4

It’s a little late, though I still want to share my solution.

Calling toArray() on the result set creates a nice clean list, without the extra data, which passes into Auth->setUser() without any problems!