- All beans in own-lists will be duplicated as well
- All references to shared beans will be copied but not the shared beans themselves
- All references to parent objects (_id fields) will be copied but not the parents themselves
In most cases this is the desired scenario for copying beans.
This function uses a trail-array to prevent infinite recursion, if a recursive bean is found
(i.e. one that already has been processed) the ID of the bean will be returned.
This should not happen though.
Note:
This function does a reflectional database query so it may be slow.