take control over class constructor

By Eldar Djafarov | Published: August 21, 2009

Javascript doesn’t give us simple way to control object constructing. We have new operator, but we cannot control it. Unless we do some magic.
Lets assume we have an observer instance, few classes and we want every instance of this classes to be ‘observed’.

var observer=[]// simplest ever
function foo(){
     this.foo="foo";
     ....
}
function bar(){
     this.bar="bar";
     ....
}

function observe(child){ //MAGIC
	childName=child.name||child.toString().match(/function\s*([^\(])\s*\(/)[1];
	newConst=function(){
	    ret={};
	    child.apply(ret, arguments);
            observer.push(ret);
	    return ret;
	};
	newConst.name=childName;
	window[childName]=newConst;
}

observe(foo);
observe(bar);

var t1=new foo();
var t2=new bar();

observer // t1,t2
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