Model Object

• addError() — Adds an error on a specific property.
• addErrorToBase() — Adds an error on a specific property.
• allAssociationErrors() — Gets all associated errors recursively
• allChanges() — Returns a struct detailing all changes that have been made on the object but not yet saved to the database.
• allErrors() — Returns an array of all the errors on the object.
• changedFrom() — Returns the previous value of a property that has changed.
• changedProperties() — Returns a list of the object properties that have been changed but not yet saved to the database.
• clearChangeInformation() — Clears all internal knowledge of the current state of the object.
• clearErrors() — Clears out all errors set on the object or only the ones set for a specific property or name.
• compareTo() — Pass in another model object to see if the two objects are the same.
• delete() — Deletes the object, which means the row is deleted from the database (unless prevented by a beforeDelete ca
• errorCount() — Returns the number of errors this object has associated with it.
• errorsOn() — Returns an array of all errors associated with the supplied property (and error name if passed in).
• errorsOnBase() — Returns an array of all errors associated with the object as a whole (not related to any specific property).
• hasChanged() — Returns true if the specified property (or any if none was passed in) has been changed but not yet saved to
• hasErrors() — Returns true if the object has any errors.
• hasProperty() — Returns true if the specified property name exists on the model.
• isNew() — Returns true if this object hasn’t been saved yet (in other words, no matching record exists in the databas
• isPersisted() — Returns true if this object has been persisted to the database or was loaded from the database via a finder
• key() — Returns the value of the primary key for the object.
• properties() — Returns a structure of all the properties with their names as keys and the values of the property as values.
• propertyIsBlank() — Returns true if the specified property doesn’t exist on the model or is an empty string.
• propertyIsPresent() — Returns true if the specified property exists on the model and is not a blank string.
• reload() — Reloads the property values of this object from the database.
• setProperties() — Allows you to set all the properties of an object at once by passing in a structure with keys matching the property name
• toggle() — Assigns to the property specified the opposite of the property’s current boolean value.
• update() — Updates the object with the supplied properties and saves it to the database.
• updateProperty() — Updates a single property and saves the record without going through the normal validation procedure.
• valid() — Runs the validation on the object and returns true if it passes it.