Hi,
That unfortunately doesn't solve the problem for namespaced classes:
var Vehicles = {};
Class.create('Vehicle.Cars', {});
Best,
Tobie
On Feb 21, 12:10 pm, GarethAtFlignet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> As prototype provides a convenient OO approach to javascript coding
> through its object inheritance model it would be 'really' useful if
> you could query the name of the current class through a getClassName()
> method or similar like you can in many other languages.
>
> There is a post at:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs/browse_thread/thr...
>
> which discusses an approach to achieve this and seems backward
> compatible.
>
> Code and usage below. Any chance of including 'something' like this in
> a future release?
>
> ---
>
> Usage:
>
> <script>
> Class.create("Vehicle", { });
> Class.create("Car", Vehicle, { }); // Car extends Vehicle
> Class.create("Passat", Car, { }); // Passat extends Car
>
> // create one of each
> var v = new Vehicle();
> var c = new Car();
> var p = new Passat();
>
> alert(v.getClassName());
> alert(c.getClassName());
> alert(p.getClassName());
> </script>
>
> ---
>
> Class rewrite:
>
> var Class = {
> create: function() {
>
> var parent = null, properties = $A(arguments);
>
> // retrieve the class name
> var className = "";
> if(Object.isString(properties[0])) {
> className = properties.shift();
> }
>
> // get the parent
> if (Object.isFunction(properties[0]))
> parent = properties.shift();
>
> function klass() {
> this.initialize.apply(this, arguments);
> }
>
> Object.extend(klass, Class.Methods);
> klass.superclass = parent;
> klass.subclasses = [];
>
> // reference the class by name
> if(className!="") {
> window[className] = klass;
> }
>
> // store the classname as klass.constructor.className
> // and add a method getClassName() to all classes
> klass.className = className;
> klass.prototype.constructor.addMethods({
> getClassName: function() {
> return this.constructor.className;
> }
> });
>
> if (parent) {
> var subclass = function() { };
> subclass.prototype = parent.prototype;
> klass.prototype = new subclass;
> parent.subclasses.push(klass);
> }
>
> for (var i = 0; i < properties.length; i++)
> klass.addMethods(properties[i]);
>
> if (!klass.prototype.initialize)
> klass.prototype.initialize = Prototype.emptyFunction;
>
> klass.prototype.constructor = klass;
>
> return klass;
> }
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