How to convert a CollaborativeObject to CollaborativeString

Question

I have created and added a CollaborativeString to the Model with name 'SomeString'. Now I want to access the same object from the Model using model.getRoot().get('SomeString') and convert it to CollaborativeString and call one function of CollaborativeString class.

How can I convert the CollaborativeObject returned by the model.getRoot().get('SomeString') to CollaborativeString?

I saw CollaborativeString inherits CollaborativeObject, but I dont know how exactly to convert base class object to derived one.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The object returned by model.getRoot().get('SomeString') is already a CollaborativeString. You don't have to convert it. For example, if you want to append to the string, you could write

model.getRoot().get('SomeString').append('text to append');