On 10/24/17 12:50 PM, /#!/JoePea wrote:
Is it possible to monkey-patch an intermediate constructor of a built-in subclass?
Right now, no.
For example, suppose I want all `Element` instances in a web app to have new instance properties, is there a way to monkey-patch the Element constructor so that when I make a custom element by extending a subclass of `Element` that the new logic will fire?
If you want to limit this to custom elements you control, in the sense of <https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html>, then "sort of, yes". You could just define a class that extends HTMLElement, have its constructor do whatever instance-property-setting you want, and have all your actual custom element classes extend that one class.
If you want to do this to custom elements you do NOT control, you can sort of do it too, using Andrea's suggestion later in this thread: as long as your code runs first, you can set your class as window.HTMLElement so everyone else is extending you, not the "real" HTMLElement.
const OldElement = window.Element
This won't work, because Element is not constructible, so all the constructor behavior lives in HTMLElement. But if you did this with HTMLElement, I would expect it would work, as in Andrea's suggestion.
Is there a way to monkey patch a constructor in the middle of a built-in prototype chain or to otherwise inject construction logic to base classes of existing class hierarchies?
Right now, no. -Boris _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
