I am generating classes at runtime to represent objects whose schema is delivered by the server after my app starts.
I want to encapsulate the procedures that statically initialize one of these classes. I have been doing this by calling them directly on the class prototype. The code looks nice because I can just say "this.foo = bar" and it has the effect of setting it statically. It has the additional advantage of allowing me to take advantage of OOP features for these static initializers. There are cases where the static initializer wants to insert its *class* into, say, global named lookup directory, so that other elements can find it. Of course, the caller of the static initializer could always pass in the class, but that seems bulky. A On Aug 22, P T Withington wrote: > Can I ask what you are really trying to do? How did you come upon a class > prototype and not have the class? > > On 2006-08-22, at 14:13 EDT, Adam Wolff wrote: > > > I have a reference to a class prototype, but not necessarily the > > class function itself. Is there a JS approved way to do get this? I don't > > have an instance of the class (or I could look at its constructor.) > > > > There's a comment in the openlaszlo trunk version of lfc/core/LzClass.as > > that says: > > // same as <instance>.__proto__.constructor > > // or <instance>.__constructor__ in swf7 > > // included for backward compatibility > > constructorF.prototype.class = constructorF; > > > > But this isn't true for the prototype itself -- the constructor of the > > prototype is unrelated in trunk, and it's a reference to the superclass > > in Legals. > > > > I can use myproto.class in trunk. Is there a similar thing in Legals? If > > not, I guess this is a feature request. > > > > A > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Laszlo-user mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user > _______________________________________________ Laszlo-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.openlaszlo.org/mailman/listinfo/laszlo-user
