Can I set a property to have a reference to a composed model?

[jrdn91]

I have an interesting setup here. Basically I need to store a reference to a selected property, which is a composed model of a base Property model type with an extended set of properties on it. But when I try to se the selectedProperty on my store to this composed model I get the error saying it can't convert the model I tried to set it to, to what the store says the reference type is supposed to be. I will try to show the code that is relevant here

Store has a property on it to store the selectedProperty

selectedProperty: t.maybeNull(t.reference(Property)),

The Property reference looks like this

export const Property = t
  .model("Property", {
    id: t.optional(t.identifier, () => uuidv4()),
    type: "Property",
    title: t.optional(t.string, "Property"),
    token: t.optional(t.string, ":property:"),
  })
  .actions((self) => ({
    updateValue(newValue) {
      self.value = newValue
    },
    getCode() {
      return self.value.getCode()
    },
  }))

Then later I compose this Property into a new type with an extra model property

const BaseLayerProperty = t
  .compose(
    Property,
    t.model({
      value: t.union(
        Color,
        Rgb,
        t.reference(Token)
      ),
    })
  )
  .named("BaseLayerProperty")

When I later try to call an action on the store to set the selectedProperty to this BaseLayerProperty it gives me the type conversion error

mobx-state-tree.module.js:3828 Uncaught Error: [mobx-state-tree] Error while converting <BaseLayerProperty@/layers/0/properties/0(id: 156f1888-6cd3-41c8-9052-79290b176c16)> to `(reference(Property) | null)`:

    value of type BaseLayerProperty: <BaseLayerProperty@/layers/0/properties/0(id: 156f1888-6cd3-41c8-9052-79290b176c16)> is not assignable to type: `(reference(Property) | null)`, expected an instance of `(reference(Property) | null)` or a snapshot like `(reference(Property) | null?)` instead.

I can store this selectedProperty on my context provider but I would love to get this all inside the mobx store if possible just so it's all in one place