[Bug] system.util.sendMessage fails with remoteServers when payload is not a dict

[lrose]

Yeah, it pukes if it hits an object that it isn’t prepared for.

Here is a pure Jython wrapper that should help.

Copy dictionary and modify it without affecting the original

As @bkarabinchak.psi pointed out even though the structure “looks” like a dict it isn’t actually a dict. Actually the type of a perspective property when accessed from a script is:com.inductiveautomation.perspective.gateway.script.PropertyTreeScriptWrapper.ObjectWrapper. Thus deepcopy chokes when it runs into an object that it doesn’t know how to handle. If you need a true deepcopy, then you have couple of options. Write a function which recursively loops through the structure and correctl…