Is there a way to freeze an ES6 Map?

Question

I'm looking for a way to freeze native ES6 Maps.

Object.freeze and Object.seal don't seem to work:

let myMap = new Map([["key1", "value1"]]); // Map { 'key1' => 'value1' }  Object.freeze(myMap); Object.seal(myMap);  myMap.set("key2", "value2"); // Map { 'key1' => 'value1', 'key2' => 'value2' } 

Is this intended behavior since freeze freezes properties of objects and maps are no objects or might this be a bug / not implemented yet?

And yes I know, I should probably use Immutable.js, but is there any way to do this with native ES6 Maps?

Answer 1

There is not, you could write a wrapper to do that. Object.freeze locks an object's properties, but while Map instances are objects, the values they store are not properties, so freezing has no effect on them, just like any other class that has internal state hidden away.

In a real ES6 environment where extending builtins is supported (not Babel), you could do this:

class FreezableMap extends Map {     set(...args){         if (Object.isFrozen(this)) return this;          return super.set(...args);     }     delete(...args){         if (Object.isFrozen(this)) return false;          return super.delete(...args);     }     clear(){         if (Object.isFrozen(this)) return;          return super.clear();     } } 

If you need to work in ES5 environments, you could easily make a wrapper class for a Map rather than extending the Map class.

Answer 2

@loganfsmyth, your answer gave me an idea, what about this:

function freezeMap(myMap){    if(myMap instanceof Map) {      myMap.set = function(key){       throw('Can\'t add property ' + key + ', map is not extensible');     };      myMap.delete = function(key){       throw('Can\'t delete property ' + key + ', map is frozen');     };      myMap.clear = function(){       throw('Can\'t clear map, map is frozen');     };   }    Object.freeze(myMap); } 

This works perfectly for me :)

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Updated with points from @Bergi in the comments:

var mapSet = function(key){   throw('Can\'t add property ' + key + ', map is not extensible'); };  var mapDelete = function(key){   throw('Can\'t delete property ' + key + ', map is frozen'); };  var mapClear = function(){   throw('Can\'t clear map, map is frozen'); };  function freezeMap(myMap){    myMap.set = mapSet;   myMap.delete = mapDelete;   myMap.clear = mapClear;    Object.freeze(myMap); }