i have a user-defined class PaymentCoordinator
in javascript with a constructor looking as shown below:
constructor( private amount: number, private description: string, private title: string, private transactionType: string, private creditors: Array<any>, private categories: Array<string>, private startdate: Date = undefined, private enddate: Date = undefined, obj: any = false)
The last property in the constructor obj
is used to instantiate a PaymentCoordinator
object from a given object obj
– which is like clone the given object. In the constructor, if a obj
is given (obj !== false
) i do the cloning as follows:
obj && Object.assign(this, obj);
All properties of the given obj
are set corretly – except for the one property categories
which is a array of strings.
I also tried:
obj && Object.assign(this, obj); this.categories = obj.categories
But this does also not set the categories
property on the new created object.
If i plot the obj.categories
i verified that the array contains strings.
Any ideas why this is not working?
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Answer
Objects in JavaScript are passed by reference
const obj = { array: [1, 2, 3] } const clone = Object.assign({}, obj) console.log(clone.array) obj.array.length = 0 console.log(clone.array)