How to define a model property type for dynamic data eg. could be a string, date or string array

MongoDB Atlas App Services & Realm Realm
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Hi,

I need to save questions and responses for multiple customers that are customer defined (questions) onto the users device. I will not know them ahead of time as I will fetch from an API. The problem is I don’t know how to store the users responses as depending on the question/component I render it could be a date, string, int or an array of strings. I was using “mixed” up until I had to create a multi select component and realised that mixed does not allow the storage of arrays.

I have outlined below a basic object I need to store and my current model.

Any help would be much appreciated!!!

Thank you.

(Using Expo with @realm & @realm/react)

const stateObject = {
	id: "A123",
	number: "ABC123ZZL",
	userName: "Joe Bloggs",
	userId: "JoeBloggs190Z",
    created: 2023-12-05T15:30:30.711Z,
	responses: [
		{question: "Are you happy", userResponse: "Yes", _id: "uuid"},
		{question: "Provide details", userResponse: "This is dummy data.", _id: "uuid"},
		{question: "What is your favourite number?", userResponse: 53, _id: "uuid"},
		{question: "When is your birthday?", userResponse: 2023-12-05T15:30:30.711Z, _id: "uuid"},
		{question: "Select your favourite colours?", userResponse: ["green", "blue", "yellow"], _id: "uuid"},
		{question: "Signature", userResponse: base64_string, _id: "uuid"},
	]
};

export class UserResponses extends Realm.Object {
    id
    number
    userName
    userId
    responses
    created

    static primaryKey = "id";
    static schema = {
        name: 'UserResponses',
        primaryKey: "id",
        properties: {
            id: 'string',
            number: 'string',
            userName: 'string',
            userId: 'string', 
            responses: {
                type: 'list',
                objectType: 'Response',
            },
            created: 'date'
        }
    }
}

export class Response extends Realm.Object {
    _id
    question
    userResponse

    static primaryKey = "_id";
    static schema = {
        name: 'Response',
        primaryKey: "_id",
        properties: {
            _id: 'string',
            question: 'string',
            userResponse: 'mixed'
        }
    }
}