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Sending unsaved Parse Objects to Client

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I use Parse Server as App-Backend and store some informations in the Parse DB. Other informations are received live from third party backends via cloud-code. To unify the communication between the Parse Backend and the App I tried to generate temporary Parse Objects to send these Objects to the App but I aren't allowed to store them in the Parse DB. When I try to send the object to the App I got the error "Cannot create a pointer to an unsaved ParseObject"

Describe the solution you'd like
Send the Objects to the App (perhaps with a "temp_xyz" objectId like the local objectId)

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Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named in the issue. Start by tracing how Parse Server serializes and sends Parse Objects, then define the expected behavior for unsaved objects and verify that temporary objects can be returned without persistence or invalid pointers.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript, nodejs
Domain
api, backend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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