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Reflection

Lightweight metadata reflection api

This module is a extended version of @abraham/reflection.

Usage :

import "https://deno.land/x/reflection/mod.ts"; // extend Reflect Object
const target = {};
Reflect.defineMetadata("key", "value", target);
Reflect.getMetadata("key", target); // Result => "value"

Extended Methods :

  • Reflect.getOwnMetadataKeys
const target = { property: "propValue" };
Reflect.defineMetadata("firstKey", "firstValue", target);
Reflect.defineMetadata("secondKey", "secondValue", target);

Reflect.defineMetadata("firstPropKey", "firstPropValue", target, "property");
Reflect.defineMetadata("secondPropKey", "secondPropValue", target, "property");

Reflect.getOwnMetadataKeys(target);
// Result => ["firstKey", "secondKey" ]

console.log(Reflect.getOwnMetadataKeys(target));
// Result => ["firstKey", "secondKey" ]
console.log(Reflect.getOwnMetadataKeys(target, "property"));
// Result => ["firstPropKey", "secondPropKey" ]
  • Reflect.getMetaDataKey
class Parent {}
class Child extends Parent {}

Reflect.defineMetadata("key", "value", Parent);
Reflect.defineMetadata("propKey", "propValue", Parent, "property");

console.log(Reflect.getMetadataKeys(Child));
//Result => ["key" ]

console.log(Reflect.getMetadataKeys(Child, "property"));
//Result => ["propKey" ]