Convert Param Object to PyDictionary

[PGriffith]

dict(self.view.params.PopupParams) might work; if it's not a deep dictionary.

If you do need a deep copy, you could try the approaches mentioned here:

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…

Or you could use Ignition Extensions' system.util.deepCopy.