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Joey Hipolito
Joey Hipolito

Reputation: 3166

accessing properties of a property from a method in a property of a class in coffeescript

I want to be able to access a property of a class property from a method of a class property. 

// lets say
class foo
  constructor: () ->
  vars: {
    bar: "somevalue"
  },
  op: {
    baz: () ->
      #get the value of foo.vars.bar
  }

How do I do it, it returns undefined if i try foo.vars.bar

EDIT

Sorry for not making it so clear, I want

baz: () ->
  something = foo.vars.bar

Is there a simple way to do it, because

baz: () ->
   something = foo.prototype.vars.bar

works fine.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 50

Answers (2)

obmarg
obmarg

Reputation: 9559

I can think of two ways you can do this: always access foo.vars via the foo prototype (as you've discovered) like this:

foo::vars.bar

(foo:: is a shortcut for foo.prototype in coffeescript)

Or you could ensure that the context of bar is bound to an instance of foo when it's called. One way to do this would be to bind it in the foo constructor:

class foo
  constructor: () ->
    @op.baz = @op.baz.bind @
  vars: {
    bar: "somevalue"
  },
  op: {
    baz: () ->
      console.log @vars.bar
  }

Which of these is most suitable probably depends on whether you want to use the same vars object across all classes or not. The second option probably isn't suitable if you want the context of baz to be something other than a foo instance.

Upvotes: 2

DRobinson
DRobinson

Reputation: 4471

One potential way is to have the parent instance variable defined in the scope:

class foo
  this_foo = null # So that the var is available everywhere within this context block
  constructor: () ->
    this_foo = @
  vars: {
    bar: "somevalue"
  },
  op: {
    baz: () ->
      this_foo.vars.bar
  }
console.log (new foo).op.baz() # => somevalue

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/XL9aH/3/

This solution will allow this instance of foo, this_foo (rename to your liking) to be accessed in other ops as well without binding them or changing their value for this (or coffee-script @).

Upvotes: 2

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