How to let multiple models share one counter?

[Yiak]

I have two models and would like them to share the same topic_id counter.

@plugin(AutoIncrementID, {
	field: "topic_id",
	trackerCollection: "meta",
	trackerModelName: "Topic",
	startAt: 100
})
export class Topic{
        @prop({ type: Number, index: true, unique: true })
	public topic_id!: number;
        ...
}

export class Message extends Topic {
	@prop({ type: Boolean, default: true, required: true })
	public is_private!: boolean;
}

With the above code, I still got two docs in the meta collection:

I thought trackerModelName should do the trick but it didn't. So how can I make it work? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[hasezoey]

I thought trackerModelName should do the trick but it didn't. So how can I make it work? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

trackerModelName sets the name for the model that stores the counter, not the modelName property (this is what the documentation is trying to say, but may be not enough on second looks)
as a side note, all properties that start with tracker affect the tracker schema / model itself, not the data inside

currently it is not possible to share a counter for multiple models (though on request i may look into adding such a option to overwrite the modelName)

[Yiak]

Thank you!

[hasezoey]

added the option in bb22a5f, named overwriteModelName, this will be available in 1.6.0, which should release after the build is finished (~10min)

[Yiak]

Great! Tested it and it works perfectly. Thanks for the work!