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Problem:
How do I get the name of an object's type in JavaScript?
Solution 1:
Object.prototype.getName = function() {
var funcNameRegex = /function (.{1,})\(/;
var results = (funcNameRegex).exec((this).constructor.toString());
return (results && results.length > 1) ? results[1] : "";
};
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Solution 2:
Caveats for all...
All of these are subject to one potential problem, and that is the question of how the object in question was constructed. Here are various ways of building objects and the values that the different methods of type checking will return:
// using a named function:
function Foo() { this.a = 1; }
var obj = new Foo();
(obj instanceof Object); // true
(obj instanceof Foo); // true
(obj.constructor == Foo); // true
(obj.constructor.name == "Foo"); // true
// let's add some prototypical inheritance
function Bar() { this.b = 2; }
Foo.prototype = new Bar();
obj = new Foo();
(obj instanceof Object); // true
(obj instanceof Foo); // true
(obj.constructor == Foo); // false
(obj.constructor.name == "Foo"); // false
// using an anonymous function:
obj = new (function() { this.a = 1; })();
(obj instanceof Object); // true
(obj.constructor == obj.constructor); // true
(obj.constructor.name == ""); // true
// using an anonymous function assigned to a variable
var Foo = function() { this.a = 1; };
obj = new Foo();
(obj instanceof Object); // true
(obj instanceof Foo); // true
(obj.constructor == Foo); // true
(obj.constructor.name == ""); // true
// using object literal syntax
obj = { foo : 1 };
(obj instanceof Object); // true
(obj.constructor == Object); // true
(obj.constructor.name == "Object"); // true
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Solution 3:
function MyObject() {}
var myInstance = new MyObject();
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myInstance.constructor.name would return "MyObject".
Solution 4:
function Square(){
this.className = "Square";
this.corners = 4;
}
var MySquare = new Square();
console.log(MySquare.className); // "Square"
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Solution 5:
Object.prototype.getConstructorName = function () {
var str = (this.prototype ? this.prototype.constructor : this.constructor).toString();
var cname = str.match(/function\s(\w*)/)[1];
var aliases = ["", "anonymous", "Anonymous"];
return aliases.indexOf(cname) > -1 ? "Function" : cname;
}
new Array().getConstructorName(); // returns "Array"
(function () {})().getConstructorName(); // returns "Function"