Getting supported methods of objects

[Brian]

Hello,

I am working on a utility script to browse the supported objects in a
browser. I know I can get the object members, by:

for( member in eval(obj_name) )

but, is there something similar for getting all of the methods?

Thanks,
Brian

[Lasse Reichstein Nielsen]

Re: Getting supported methods of objects

genisiob@pilot. msu.edu (Brian) writes:
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> I am working on a utility script to browse the supported objects in a
> browser. I know I can get the object members, by:
>
> for( member in eval(obj_name) )[/color]

.... but you shoudn't use eval like that. If obj_name contains the name
of a global variable, just write "window[obj_name]". If nothing else,
it is probably orders of magnitude faster that using eval.
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> but, is there something similar for getting all of the methods?[/color]

There is no difference between "members" and "methods" in Javascript.
They are all object properties. The for(..in..) construction iterates
throught all the *enumerable* properties. There is no easy way to find
the names of non-enumerable properties (like all the properties of
the array prototype). So, no.


/L
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