Dynamic Function Name in JavaScript

Dynamic function name in javascript?

As others mentioned, this is not the fastest nor most recommended solution. Marcosc's solution below is the way to go.

You can use eval:

var code = "this.f = function " + instance + "() {...}";
eval(code);

Dynamic function names in JavaScript

Updated answer in 2016:

The "However, that's changing..." part of the original answer below has changed. ES2015 ("ES6") was released a year ago, and JavaScript engines are now finally coming into compliance with one of its lesser-known aspects: Function#name.

As of ES2015, this function has a name despite being created using an "anonymous" function expression:

var f = function() { };

Its name is f. This is dictated by the specification (or the new one for ES2016) in dozens of different places (search for where SetFunctionName is used). In this particular case, it's because it gets the name of the variable it's being assigned to. (I've used var there instead of the new let to avoid giving the impression that this is a feature of let. It isn't. But as this is ES2015, I'll use let from now on...)

Now, you may be thinking "That doesn't help me, because the f is hardcoded," but stick with me.

This function also has the name f:

let obj = {
f: function() { }
};

It gets the name of the property it's being assigned to (f). And that's where another handy feature of ES2015 comes into effect: Computed property names in object initializers. Instead of giving the name f literally, we can use a computed property name:

let functionName = "f";
let obj = {
[functionName]: function() { }
};

Computed property name syntax evaluates the expression in the [] and then uses the result as the property name. And since the function gets a true name from the property it's being assigned to, voilà, we can create a function with a runtime-determined name.

If we don't want the object for anything, we don't need to keep it:

let functionName = "f";
let f = ({
[functionName]: function() { }
})[functionName];

That creates the object with the function on it, then grabs the function from the object and throws the object away.

Of course, if you want to use lexical this, it could be an arrow function instead:

let functionName = "f";
let f = ({
[functionName]: () => { }
})[functionName];

Here's an example, which works on Chrome 51 and later but not on many others yet:

// Get the namelet functionName = prompt(  "What name for the function?",  "func" + Math.floor(Math.random() * 10000));
// Create the functionlet f = ({ [functionName]: function() { }})[functionName];
// Check the nameif (f.name !== functionName) { console.log("This browser's JavaScript engine doesn't fully support ES2015 yet.");} else { console.log("The function's name is: " + f.name);}

How do I call a dynamically-named method in Javascript?

Assuming the populate_Colours method is in the global namespace, you may use the following code, which exploits both that all object properties may be accessed as though the object were an associative array, and that all global objects are actually properties of the window host object.

var method_name = "Colours";
var method_prefix = "populate_";

// Call function:
window[method_prefix + method_name](arg1, arg2);

How to call a function using a dynamic name in JS

Usually we should avoid eval. What you are trying to do is possible without using eval too and with a simpler code :

//variables
var ta = 3213;
var da = 44;
var s = [];

//Create string representation of function
s[1] = function test0(){ alert(" + da + "); };
s[0] = function test1(){ alert(" + ta +"); };

s.forEach((fun) => { this[fun.name] = fun;});

// calling the function
this["test"+1]();

Or simple in your code do :

this["test"+1]();

EDIT:

If you are using string and eval just because you are getting function name as string, instead you can create an object :

var data = {};
for(var i = 0; i<10; i++) {
data['key'+ i] = function (i) { alert(i); }.bind(null, i);
}

Javascript: Dynamic function names

window.example = function () { alert('hello world') }
example();

or

name = 'example';
window[name] = function () { ... }
...

or

window[name] = new Function('alert("hello world")')

TypeScript: auto-generated dynamic function names

Edit for 4.1

Using Template literal types and mapped type 'as' clauses we can now do concatenate strings in the type system and create a class that has these properties created dynamically.

function defineDynamicClass<T extends string[]>(...info: T): {
new (): {
[K in T[number] as `get${Capitalize<K>}`]: () => unknown
} & {
[K in T[number] as `set${Capitalize<K>}`]: (value: unknown) => void
} & {
info: T
}
} {
return class {
get info () {
return info;
}
} as any
}
class MyClass extends defineDynamicClass('A', 'B', 'ABAB') {
}
let s =new MyClass();
s.getA();
s.getABAB();
s.setA("")
s.info;

Playground Link

Before 4.1

The within language approach

There is no way to do this within the type system, since we can't perform string manipulation on string literal types. The closest you can get, without external tools, is to create get/set methods that take a string literal type, that will be of the same as that returned by the getInfo method.

function stringLiteralArray<T extends string>(...v: T[]){ return v;}

abstract class Original {
get(name: this['info'][number]) {
return null;
}

set(name: this['info'][number], value: any) {
return null;
}

get info() : string[]{
return [];
}
}

class MyOtherClass extends Original {
get info() {
return stringLiteralArray('A', 'B', 'ABAB');
}
}
class MyClass extends Original {
get info() {
return stringLiteralArray('C', 'D', 'DEDE');
}
}

let s =new MyClass();
s.get('A') // error
s.get('C') // ok

While this approach is not 100% what you want, form our previous discussions the aim was to have full code-completion for the methods, and this approach achieves this. You get errors if you pass in the wrong value and you get a completion list for the string:

Sample Image

The compiler API approach

A second approach would be to create a custom tool that uses the typescript compiler API to parse the ts files, look for classes derived from Original and generates interfaces containing the methods (either in the same file or a different file) , if you are interested in this I can write the code, but it's not trivial, and while the compiler API is stable I don't think the compiler team takes as much care with backward compatibility as they do with the language (in fact this is the exact statement they make in the documentation page).

If you are interested in such a solution, let me know and I can provide it, but I advise against it.

Calling functions as dynamic function as array values in javascript

Use function names rather than using strings

function getId(arr) {  for (let i in arr) {    console.log("Function getId " + arr[i]);  }}
function getMarker(arr) { for (let i in arr) { console.log("Function getMarker " + arr[i]); }}const PAGEAPP = { processes: [getId, getMarker], init: () => { for (let foo of PAGEAPP.processes) { foo([1, 2, 3]);
} },}
PAGEAPP.init()

How to create Dynamic Function Name in ReactJS & use on onBlur?

You can have a generic function like this, which takes type as input and returns a validating function.

const createValidator = type => {
switch (type) {
case 'email':
return (event) => {
const email = event.target.value;
const re = /^(([^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+(\.[^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+)*)|(\".+\"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/;
(!re.test(email)) && console.log("Please enter a valid email address");
}

default:
return null;
}
}

And in your input tag, you can use it like this

<input onChange={handleChange} onBlur={createValidator('email')} />


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