Inheritance of closure objects and overriding of methods
- by bobikk
I need to extend a class, which is encapsulated in a closure. This base class is following:
var PageController = (function(){
// private static variable
var _current_view;
return function(request, new_view) {
...
// priveleged public function, which has access to the _current_view
this.execute = function() {
alert("PageController::execute");
}
}
})();
Inheritance is realised using the following function:
function extend(subClass, superClass){
var F = function(){
};
F.prototype = superClass.prototype;
subClass.prototype = new F();
subClass.prototype.constructor = subClass;
subClass.superclass = superClass.prototype;
StartController.cache = '';
if (superClass.prototype.constructor == Object.prototype.constructor) {
superClass.prototype.constructor = superClass;
}
}
I subclass the PageController:
var StartController = function(request){
// calling the constructor of the super class
StartController.superclass.constructor.call(this, request, 'start-view');
}
// extending the objects
extend(StartController, PageController);
// overriding the PageController::execute
StartController.prototype.execute = function() {
alert('StartController::execute');
}
Inheritance is working. I can call every PageController's method from StartController's instance. However, method overriding doesn't work:
var startCont = new StartController();
startCont.execute();
alerts "PageController::execute".
How should I override this method?
