Upgrading parse-server from 5 to 8

@isokosan Deniz Genctürk
Sat, 07 Jun 2025 10:58:00 +0000

Hi! I finally started my journey to upgrade parse in two projects I’m maintaining, which both use v 5.6 to the latest version of parse.

I made good progress, yet I ran into an issue that I did not see (or missed) in the breaking changes and want to ask here.

In my cloud code before find / after find triggers I’ve noticed that I cannot use the ParseObjectSubclass supplied in the context under objects is no longer usable as a pointer in ParseQuery.

An example object like this was usable in v 5.6.0 and was cast to a pointer correctly:

 ParseObjectSubclass {
   className: 'Cube',
   _objCount: 2385,
   id: 'VOD-052755'
 }

However now in v8 unless I do .toPointer() on the object, I cannot use it in pointer queries.

Since I have a lot of calls throughtout my codebase and I don’t want to have to add .toPointer() on all of these, any ideas on what I can do?

I tried setting the encodeParseObjectInCloudFunction option to false but this was not the culprit.

Would appreaciate any input! Thanks!