Granted I'm a javascript noob (at best). The following code seems to work fine. Any ideas how to keep the same "initializer" approach and make it work without using __proto__
and without converting everything to constructor functions?
var Employee =
{
paygrade: 1,
name: "",
dept: "general",
init: function()
{
return this;
},
salary: function()
{
return this.paygrade * 30000;
}
};
var WorkerBee =
{
paygrade: 2,
projects: ["Project1", "Project2"],
init: function()
{
this.__proto__ = Inherit_Employee; // Inherit My Employee "Pseudo Prototype"
return this;
}
};
var SalesPerson =
{
dept: "Sales",
quota: 100,
init: function()
{
this.__proto__ = Inherit_WorkerBee; // Inherit My WorkerBee "Pseudo Prototype"
return this;
}
};
var Engineer =
{
dept: "Engineering",
machine: "im the start machine",
init: function()
{
this.__proto__ = Inherit_WorkerBee; // Inherit My WorkerBee "Pseudo Prototype"
return this;
}
};
var Inherit_Employee = Object.create(Employee).init(); // Create My Employee Pseudo-Prototype
var Inherit_WorkerBee = Object.create(WorkerBee).init(); // Create My WorkerBee Pseudo-Prototype
var jane = Object.create(Engineer).init();
var jill = Object.create(Engineer).init();
I do have one approach that works, but I'm wondering if there is a more efficient approach. For now, what I have done is replace the lines that reference __proto__
with a call to my own inheritence function like this.
init: function()
{
inherit(this, WorkerBee); // Inherit WorkerBee
return this;
}
And this is my inherit() function
function inherit( childObject, parentObject )
{
// childObject inherits all of parentObjects properties
//
for (var attrname in parentObject)
if ( childObject[attrname] == undefined )
childObject[attrname] = parentObject[attrname];
// childObject runs parentObject 'init' function on itself
//
for (var attrname in parentObject)
if ( typeof parentObject[attrname] == "function" )
if ( attrname == 'init' )
parentObject[attrname].call(childObject);
}
Object.getPrototypeOf
// old-way
obj.__proto__
// new-way
Object.getPrototypeOf(obj)
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