Permission denied to access property 'toString'

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Published on 2012-12-13T17:02:02Z Indexed on 2012/12/13 17:03 UTC
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I'm trying to find a generic way of getting the name of Constructors. My goal is to create a Convention over configuration framework for KnockoutJS

My idea is to iterate over all objects in the window and when I find the contructor i'm looking for then I can use the index to get the name of the contructor

The code sofar

(function() {
    constructors = {};
    window.findConstructorName = function(instance) {
        var constructor = instance.constructor;
        var name = constructors[constructor];
        if(name !== undefined) {
            return name;
        }

        var traversed = [];
        var nestedFind = function(root) {       
            if(typeof root == "function" || traversed[root]) {
                return       
            }

            traversed[root] = true;
            for(var index in root) {               
                if(root[index] == constructor) {
                    return index;
                }


                var found = nestedFind(root[index]);  
                if(found !== undefined) {
                    return found;
                }
            }
        }

        name = nestedFind(window);
        constructors[constructor] = name;
        return name;
    }
})();

var MyApp = {};
MyApp.Foo = function() {
};

var instance = new MyApp.Foo();
console.log(findConstructorName(instance));     

The problem is that I get a Permission denied to access property 'toString' Exception, and i cant even try catch so see which object is causing the problem

Fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/4ZwaV/

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