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title: Model
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<h2>Summary</h2>

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  <p><p>A base class for API objects that provides abstract support for
serialization and deserialization, matching by attributes, and ID-based equality.</p>
<h2 id="attributes">Attributes</h2>
<p><code>id</code>: <a href='attributestring.html'>AttributeString</a> The resolved canonical ID of the model used in the
database and generally throughout the app. The id property is a custom
getter that resolves to the serverId first, and then the clientId.</p>
<p><code>clientId</code>: <a href='attributestring.html'>AttributeString</a> An ID created at object construction and
persists throughout the lifetime of the object. This is extremely useful
for optimistically creating objects (like drafts and categories) and
having a constant reference to it. In all other cases, use the resolved
<code>id</code> field.</p>
<p><code>serverId</code>: <a href='attributeserverid.html'>AttributeServerId</a> The server ID of the model. In most cases,
except optimistic creation, this will also be the canonical id of the
object.</p>
<p><code>object</code>: <a href='attributestring.html'>AttributeString</a> The model&#39;s type. This field is used by the JSON
 deserializer to create an instance of the correct class when inflating the object.</p>
<p><code>accountId</code>: <a href='attributestring.html'>AttributeString</a> The string Account Id this model belongs to.</p>
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    <h3>Instance Methods</h3>

    <h4 id=attributes class="function-name">
      attributes(<span class="args"></span>) <a href="#attributes" class="link"></a>
    </h4>

    <div class="function-description markdown-from-sourecode">
      <p></p>
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        <strong>Returns</strong>
        <table class="arguments">
          <tr>
            <th>Return Values</th>
          </tr>
          <tr><td class="markdown-from-sourecode"><p>Returns an <a href='https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/array'>Array</a> of <a href='attribute.html'>Attribute</a> objects defined on the Model&#39;s constructor</p>
    </td></tr>
        </table>
    <h4 id=toJSON class="function-name">
      toJSON(<span class="args"><span class="arg">[options]</span></span>) <a href="#toJSON" class="link"></a>
    </h4>

    <div class="function-description markdown-from-sourecode">
      <p><p>Deflates the model to a plain JSON object. Only attributes defined
    on the model are included in the JSON.</p>
    </p>
    </div>

        <strong>Parameters</strong>
        <table class="arguments">
            <tr>
              <th>Argument</th>
              <th>Description</th>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td style="width:15%;">
                <em>options</em>
              </td>
              <td class="markdown-from-sourecode">
                <span class="optional">Optional</span>
                <p>An <a href='https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/object'>Object</a> with additional options. To skip joined  data attributes in the toJSON representation, pass the <code>joined:false</code></p>

              </td>
            </tr>
        </table>

        <strong>Returns</strong>
        <table class="arguments">
          <tr>
            <th>Return Values</th>
          </tr>
          <tr><td class="markdown-from-sourecode"><p>Returns an <a href='https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/object'>Object</a> with the JSON representation of the model.</p>
    </td></tr>
        </table>
    <h4 id=matches class="function-name">
      matches(<span class="args"><span class="arg">criteria</span></span>) <a href="#matches" class="link"></a>
    </h4>

    <div class="function-description markdown-from-sourecode">
      <p><p>Evaluates the model against one or more <a href='matcher.html'>Matcher</a> objects.</p>
    </p>
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        <strong>Parameters</strong>
        <table class="arguments">
            <tr>
              <th>Argument</th>
              <th>Description</th>
            </tr>
            <tr>
              <td style="width:15%;">
                <em>criteria</em>
              </td>
              <td class="markdown-from-sourecode">

                <p>An <a href='https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/array'>Array</a> of <a href='matcher.html'>Matcher</a>s to run on the model.</p>

              </td>
            </tr>
        </table>

        <strong>Returns</strong>
        <table class="arguments">
          <tr>
            <th>Return Values</th>
          </tr>
          <tr><td class="markdown-from-sourecode"><p>Returns true if the model matches the criteria.</p>
    </td></tr>
        </table>