Make a property either invokable or not

Question

I want to make a property either invokable or not. So for example:

function Test () {
  var obj = { someString: 'here is text' };

  Object.defineProperty(obj, 'string', {
    get: function() {
      return obj.someString;
    },
    set: function() {
      return function(val) {
        obj.someString = val;
      }
    }
  });

  return obj;
}

var test = new Test();

That way I could do:

test.string // initially returns 'here is text'

test.string('new text here') // sets obj.someString to 'new text here'

test.string // returns 'next text here'

The code above does not currently function the way I want it to. Is there anyway to do something like this in JavaScript? Either using Object.defineProperty or not

@shambalambala I made a better question for this here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43923053/how-to-make-a-property-method-invokable-or-not — georgej, May 11 '17 at 18:27

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 10 '17 at 21:32

I'm not sure that it's possible to do that. Instead, you could do conditional for if a function parameter is set and if it's not have the function read the property:

function Test () {
  var obj = { 
    someString: 'here is text',
    string: function(val) {
      if(val == undefined) { // If the val parameter was not defined
        return this.someString; // Just return the property someString
      } else { // Otherwise, 
        this.someString = val; 
      }
    }
  };
  return obj;
}

var Tmp = new Test();
console.log(Tmp.string()); // This outputs 'here is text'
Tmp.string('New text!'); // This sets someString to 'New Text!'
console.log(Tmp.string()); // This outputs 'New Text!'

The main difference between this and what you wanted is that instead of caling Tmp.string to retrieve the value, you're calling Tmp.string().

Here's my jsfiddle

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 10 '17 at 21:53

0

You can use ES6 syntax:

class Test{
  constructor(){
    this.someString = "here is text";
  }

  get string(){
    return this.someString;
  }

  set string(val){
    this.someString = val
  }
}

answered May 10 '17 at 21:53

andrey

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