Support inheritance from abstractModel (old: staticMethod not giving model as this)

[cryptiklemur]

Using the following code:

export default abstract class AbstractModel extends Typegoose {
    @staticMethod
    public static findByIdentifier(this: ModelType<AbstractModel>, identifier: Long) {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            console.log(this);
            this.findOne({identifier}).then(resolve).catch(reject);
        });
    }

    @prop({required: true, index: true, unique: true})
    public identifier: string;
}

this is always an instance of the model, instead of the model type, so i can't call findOne.

Feel like im missing something...

[szokodiakos]

Hello I think you haven't included some other Models' code. Can you please extend your example? Right now its hard to tell what is wrong.

[cryptiklemur]

Theres really not much to the other models

import AbstractModel from "./AbstractModel"

export default class User extends AbstractModel {
}

let user: User = await UserModel.findOneByIdentifier('some identifier here');

[cryptiklemur]

I might be missing something, but it actually seems like inheritance is not supported

[vinczedani]

Hi @aequasi
Sorry for the late response. The current version of typegoose is not written with inheritance support in mind. I mark this issue with enhancement instead of question.
Thanks, Daniel

[buzzyboy]

Has there been any update to creating this enhancement?

[hasezoey]

this should work in v6.0.0

@Ben305 this can be closed