How to have a snapshot with resolved reference

[Ziltosh]

Hello,

I need to get a snapshot of a model to send to a backend, I use getSnapshot that works great but it not resolve references.
How can I have a "full" object representation of my current model without recreate it "by hand" ?

Thank you.

[EmilTholin]

Hi @Ziltosh!

Could you elaborate a bit on what you mean by "resolved references", and maybe give an example? I don't quite follow.

Do you mean that the snapshot should look more like { myRef: { id: "1", name: "foo", ... } } rather than { myRef: "1" }?

[Ziltosh]

Hi,

Yes, I would like to be able to recover the entire object and not only reference id, but I don't know how.

Here is a simple example: https://codesandbox.io/s/clever-currying-9qi28d?file=/src/index.ts

[k-ode]

You can use the toJS utility method from mobx: https://mobx.js.org/api.html#tojs

Note that it won't work in your current example becuase the reference needs to be resolvable from the same tree.

[EmilTholin]

Awesome! Example

[Ziltosh]

Oh, thank you 👍 .