Reading member and tagged fields from SimDictionary

Last night I was trying to figure out if there was a way to get all of the fields, and their value(s), contained in a SimObject. There's the obj.dump() method, but that just dumps the information to the console. It would appear that there's an un-exposed method called obj->writeFields() which obj.save() uses. It writes the fields and their values to a stream.

My question is, what would I need to do to be able to write it to a memory stream, and then write that back in a ConsoleFunction or ConsoleMethod? It seems like this would be a useful function for people to have access to. It would make object cloning possible, since currently there isn't a way to clone an object (that I know of). You can copy an object, but then it appears to be just a reference to the object.. is that right?

Any insight would be most appreciated!

- Brett