Use of .apply() with 'new' operator. Is this possible?

Question

In JavaScript, I want to create an object instance (via the new operator), but pass an arbitrary number of arguments to the constructor. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Solution without ES6 or polyfills:

var obj = _new(Demo).apply(["X", "Y", "Z"]);


function _new(constr)
{
    function createNamedFunction(name)
    {
        return (new Function("return function " + name + "() { };"))();
    }

    var func = createNamedFunction(constr.name);
    func.prototype = constr.prototype;
    var self = new func();

    return { apply: function(args) {
        constr.apply(self, args);
        return self;
    } };
}

function Demo()
{
    for(var index in arguments)
    {
        this['arg' + (parseInt(index) + 1)] = arguments[index];
    }
}
Demo.prototype.tagged = true;


console.log(obj);
console.log(obj.tagged);

output

Demo {arg1: "X", arg2: "Y", arg3: "Z"}


... or "shorter" way:

var func = new Function("return function " + Demo.name + "() { };")();
func.prototype = Demo.prototype;
var obj = new func();

Demo.apply(obj, ["X", "Y", "Z"]);

edit:
I think this might be a good solution:

this.forConstructor = function(constr)
{
    return { apply: function(args)
    {
        let name = constr.name.replace('-', '_');

        let func = (new Function('args', name + '_', " return function " + name + "() { " + name + "_.apply(this, args); }"))(args, constr);
        func.constructor = constr;
        func.prototype = constr.prototype;

        return new func(args);
    }};
}