Issues with duplicate Property Set names

The default properties are not a Property Set, they are attached directly to the element. Just don’t call any additional property sets ’default’ to avoid confusion. Property Set names themselves must be unique, but I do not see any issue with this. The getOne() method would never work to get a property set directly from an element, because they are related through another table that gives them a one-to-many relationship, modElementPropertySet, with an alias of PropertySets. i.e.

$attachedPropertySets = $element->getMany('PropertySets');

$setName = 'desiredPropertySetName';
$chunkName = 'desiredChunkName';
 
$object = $modx->getObject('modChunk',array(

        'name' =>$chunkName));
 
$propsets = $object->getMany('PropertySets');
 
foreach($propsets as $props) {
   $set = $modx->getObject('modPropertySet',$props->get('property_set'));
   $name = $set->get('name');
   if ($name == $setName) {
      break;
   }
}

They’re clearly not a modPropertySet object, though. This will take some careful documentation to prevent confusion. It looks $element->getProperties() gets the same thing as what you get with $propertySet->get(’properties’) or $propertySet->getProperties(). Is that correct?

Also, about getting a named property set of an element; this is all I’ve been able to come up with. It seems there must be a more direct way (other than using getObject() to search through all property sets):

$chunk = $modx->getObject('modChunk', array('name' => 'MyChunk'));
$propSet = $modx->getObject('modPropertySet', array('name' => 'MyNamedPropertySet'));
$parsedContent = $chunk->process($propSet->getProperties());

Agreed on clarifying the difference carefully. But there is a difference between getting the raw data with $propertySet->get(’properties’), and the ready to use key/value pairs with $propertySet->getProperties(). The former will return a more complex array for each key with all of the metadata associated with each property, while the latter has just the values, ready to use.

There is no real need to go through the getMany() method here. Since PropertySets are unique by name, you can grab it directly by name and be done:

$chunk = $modx->getObject('modChunk', array('name' => 'MyChunk'));
$propSet = $modx->getObject('modPropertySet', array('name' => 'MyNamedPropertySet'));
$parsedContent = $chunk->process($propSet->getProperties());

Thanks. Do $element->getProperties() and $propSet->getProperties() return equivalent arrays?

Right, but that search involves every property set at the site. I thought it might be faster and more efficient to just get the few associated with the element and search them.