How to find hidden properties/methods in Javascript objects?
- by ramanujan
I would like to automatically determine all of the properties (including the
hidden ones) in a given Javascript object, via a generalization of this
function:
function keys(obj) {
var ll = [];
for(var pp in obj) {
ll.push(pp);
}
return ll;
}
This works for user defined objects but fails for many builtins:
repl> keys({"a":10,"b":2}); // ["a","b"]
repl> keys(Math) // returns nothing!
Basically, I'd like to write equivalents of Python's dir() and help(), which are really useful in exploring new objects.
My understanding is that only the builtin objects have hidden properties (user code evidently can't set the "enumerable" property till HTML5), so one possibility is to simply hardcode the properties of Math, String, etc. into a dir() equivalent (using the lists such as those here). But is there a better way?
