Get a Backbone Model instance's model/class name

Question

Given an instance of Backbone model, how can I know the "class" (so to speak) of this instance ?

For instance:

class Car extends Backbone.Model  mycar = new Car() 

And what I need is:

mycar.modelName # => 'Car' 

Answer 1

I tried Mitch's suggestion but in Chrome, model.constructor.name is always "" for me.

I chose instead to use a convention. I now create a class property using the second param of extend that works as follows:

directory.models.SomeModel = Backbone.Model.extend({      //  usual model instance stuff }, {     modelType: "SomeModel"   // class property }); 

I found that I can always get what I want like this:

var mt = model.constructor.modelType; 

Answer 2

As of writing you can get a model's class name by doing the following:

model.constructor.name 

This works for me in the Chrome browser.