Question

I have a name of a method as a string in javascript variable and I would like to get a result of its call to variable:

var myMethod = "methodToBeCalled";
var result;
eval("result = "+myMethod+"();")

This works and there are no problems. But this code is inacceptable for Google Closure Compiler. How can I modify it to work with it? Thanks!

EDIT:

It seems the proposed solutions does not work when the name of the method is inside of some object, for instance:

var myFunction = function () { return "foo!" }
var myObject = {
    itsMethod: function() { return "foo!" }
};
...
var fstMethodToCall = "myFunction"
var sndMethodToCall = "myObject.itsMethod";
...
window[fstMethodToCall](); // foo!
window[sndMethodToCall](); // undefined

Answer 1

Assuming you are not in a nested scope of some kind, try:

var result = window['methodToBeCalled']();

or

var myMethod = 'methodToBeCalled';
var result = window[myMethod]();

To execute an arbitrary function of arbitrary depth based on a string specification, while not executing eval:

var SomeObject = {
    level1: {
        level2: {
            someFunc: function () {
                console.log('hello');
            }
        }
    }
};

var target = 'SomeObject.level1.level2.someFunc';

var obj;
var split = target.split('.');
for (var i = 0; i < split.length; i++) {
    obj = (obj || window)[split[i]];
}

obj();