Object weirdness

programming flash
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Hi everyone,

I’ve been debating with something for the last few hours that never happened to me before.

picture this class:


package {

    public class Api {

        static public var _default:Object;
        static public var _data:Object;

        public function Api (data:Object) {
            _default = data;
            _data = data;
        }

        static public function updateData (obj:Object):void {
	    for (var k:String in obj) {
		_data[k] = obj[k];
	    }
        }

}

Ok so the code stores the _default object and _data objects with the initial values passed to the constructor and then there’s a method to change properties in the _data object.

Now, the problem is that if i suddenly feel like resetting the values to the initial ones when i do:

Api.updateData(Api._default); // doesn’t work
Api._data = Api._default; // doesn’t work

and if i:

Api.updateData({someVar: ‘hello’});

trace(Api._default.someVar);
trace(Api._data.someVar);

They both come up with the same values, I’m never changing the _default object so why is it updating along with the _data one?!

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.