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Problem with naming a custom property "size"

I ran into this issue today and thought I'd share:

I created a custom control, and for that custom control I created a few custom properties. One of these properties was unfortunately named "size". There isn't any warning that size would be a bad name for a property, but that causes a problem. It causes a problem because compositeData is just a Map, and size is a method of Map.

So what you wind up getting for some reason, is the entire javascript array instead of the value you are looking for. Something like this:

{size=md, label={columns=2, text=test}, input={dataBinding=null, columns=10}}

I haven't tested it, but I suspect it would be the same with properties named values and clear, among others.

However, if you rename the size property, everything works just fine.

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