Nested method Calling outside

tricker · 11-22-2012, 04:58 PM

Hi All,

I am trying to call method "childMethod" which is a private method and is not available outside the testSingleton object. i tried couple of ways to achieve this but have found the right solution to it. so would be helpful if someone can point me or tell me the right approach to it.

May be i havn't defined the method perfectly..
Below is the code for your rerefrence..

Thanks in Advance,
Tricker



<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<title>Untitled Document</title>

<script language="JavaScript" src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">



var testSingleton = {

	init: function(){

		testSingleton.myFirstMethod();

		testSingleton.siblingToInit();	

	},//init ends here

	

	myFirstMethod:function(){	

			function childMethod(){

				alert('i am a ChildMethod of init');

			}//childMethod ends here			

	},//myFirstMethod ends here

	

	siblingToInit: function(){

		alert('i am sibling of init');	

	}//siblingToInit ends here

	

}//testSingleton ends here





$(document).ready(function(){

	testSingleton.init();	

});



</script>





</head>



<body>



<script type="text/javascript">

	testSingleton.myFirstMethod.childMethod();

</script>



</body>

</html>

Dormilich · 11-23-2012, 10:57 AM

so what is your objective here, define a private method?

anyways, the naming of "child method" and "sibling method" does not really make sense. seen verbatim, every method of an object is a sibling method of the other. "child method" would only make sense if inheritance were involved (which isn’t).

if child method is meant to be that: testSingleton.myFirstMethod.childMethod();, myFirstMethod must be an object (and in this particular case not even a function), which has a childMethod() property. mind that childMethod() does not have a relation to testSingleton then.

PHP Code:


			
var testSingleton = {
    myFirstMethod: {
        childMethod: function() {}
    }
};

// alternately
var testSingleton = {
    myFirstMethod: function() 
    {
        return {
            childMethod: function() {}
        }
    }
};
// as
testSingleton.myFirstMethod().childMethod();