I\'m looking to do the equivalent of Python\'s inspect.getargspec()
in Javascript.
I do know that you can get the arguments
list from a Jav
Sightly improved version of Jonathan Fingland's answer:
// Utility function to extract arg name-value pairs
function getArgs(args) {
var argsObj = {};
var argList = /\(([^)]*)/.exec(args.callee)[1];
var argCnt = 0;
var tokens;
while (tokens = /\s*([^,]+)/g.exec(argList)) {
argsObj[tokens[1]] = args[argCnt++];
}
return argsObj;
}
// Test subject
function add(number1, number2) {
var args = getArgs(arguments);
alert(args.toSource()); // ({number1:3,number2:4})
}
// Invoke test subject
add(3, 4);
Note: This only works on browsers that support arguments.callee
.
(Also posted at How to get function parameter names/values dynamically from javascript)
While I can't see any good reason for this,
var reg = /\(([\s\S]*?)\)/;
var params = reg.exec(func);
if (params)
var param_names = params[1].split(',');
assuming func
is the name of your function
here a small nodejs module for that.
https://github.com/kilianc/node-introspect
The following function will return an array of parameter names of any function passed in.
function getParamNames(func) {
var funStr = func.toString();
return funStr.slice(funStr.indexOf('(')+1, funStr.indexOf(')')).match(/([^\s,]+)/g);
}
Example usage:
getParamNames(getParamNames) // returns ['func']
getParamNames(function (a,b,c,d){}) // returns ['a','b','c','d']
Here's a version that uses higher order functions. The only thing I don't like about it is that you have to specify parameters as members of an array. But at least they only have to be specified once.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title></title>
<script type="text/javascript">
var withNamedParams = function(params, lambda) {
return function() {
var named = {};
var max = arguments.length;
for (var i=0; i<max; i++) {
named[params[i]] = arguments[i];
}
return lambda(named);
};
};
var foo = withNamedParams(["a", "b", "c"], function(params) {
for (var param in params) {
alert(param + ": " + params[param]);
}
});
foo(1, 2, 3);
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>