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I am trying to do a 'Get' from a custom table.  I would like to get the whole record for a particular id.  I am successful at getting one field but not the whole record.  This works and I can get the number_of_slots field from the group_member custom table.

$result = civicrm_api('CustomValue', 'Get', array('version' => '3', 'entity_id' => $group_contactId, 'return.group_member:number_of_slots' => 1));
$number_of_slots = reset($result["latest"]);

I cannot make it work for the whole record.  If I do this:

$result = civicrm_api('CustomValue', 'Get', array('version' => '3', 'entity_id' => $group_contactId, 'return.group_member' => 1));

I get this:
array(2) { ["is_error"]=> int(1) ["error_message"]=> string(51) "A fatal error was triggered: is not of type String" }

Can someone please send me the proper syntax?  Thank you.