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blackHawk
blackHawk

Reputation: 6307

Why am I able to access private member of the class?

My code is as follow

@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  template: `
    <ul>
    <li *ngFor = 'let hero1 of heros2'>
    {{hero1.name}}
    </li>
    </ul>        
 `})

export class AppComponent {   
heros2 : any = [
    new heross('lee', 'lee'),
    new heross('lee1', 'lee1'),
];}

class heross{
 private name : string;
 constructor(name : string, details : string){
     this.name = name; 
}}
bootstrap(AppComponent);

why am I able to access name in the view and displaying name, provided that I have given it private keyword

Upvotes: 0

Views: 475

Answers (3)

Nitzan Tomer
Nitzan Tomer

Reputation: 164277

If you'll try:

class A {
    private x: number;
}

let a = new A();
console.log(a.x);

(code in playground)

You'll get a compilation error:

Property 'x' is private and only accessible within class 'A'

The reason you're not getting that, I suspect (as I'm not an angular developer), is that you're having hero1.name in a string so the typescript compiler doesn't treat hero1 as a variable.

I bet that if you try:

let obj = new heross("name", "details");
console.log(`heross.name: ${ obj.name }`);

Then you'll get the compilation error.
The difference being ${} instead of {{}}.

If however you're asking why that's accessible at runtime, then that's because there's no notion of visibility in javascript, it doesn't get pass the compiler.

Edit

There's a difference between the angular double curly brace ({{ }}):

The double curly brace notation {{ }} to bind expressions to elements is built-in Angular markup

Which you don't need to put into ticks, you can just use regular single/double quotes.

And the javascript template literals (${ }):

Template literals are string literals allowing embedded expressions. You can use multi-line strings and string interpolation features with them. They were called "template strings" in prior editions of the ES2015 / ES6 specification

More simply:

let x = 4;
console.log(`x={{ x }}`); // outputs 'x={{ x }}'
console.log(`x=${ x }`); // outputs 'x=4'

Upvotes: 2

null canvas
null canvas

Reputation: 10613

Because it's javascript at the end of the day. And Javascript language does not have a private keyword.

Upvotes: 0

G&#252;nter Z&#246;chbauer
G&#252;nter Z&#246;chbauer

Reputation: 657721

Privacy is not enforced in TypeScript in general but only checked by static tools.

You can see the bindings in the view and the component class as a single unit, like the bindings in the template is part of the class implementation.

With the offline template compiler I assume this is actually how the generated code will be organized.

Upvotes: 1

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