Question

Learning JavaScript OOP … And being all day on that field but…
I cannot understand / find how to create custom JS Method just like

.toString() , .toUpperCase() …and other methods, that for e.g. if you have an accessed object like

customer.name // John 

and you use:

customer.name.toLowerCase();

will give you // john

That means that a function Method toLowerCase() somehow uses the this reference of the prefixed object as the operable argument for the return operation.

How to do something like that? Attach a method that will do some stuff with some unknown previous object?

OK, just a stupid example, let’s say we want to be able to create a .addLength() Method that will simply allow us to do: customer.name.addLength() // John Name length = 4

function addLength(){   
    var that = this;
    var name = that.toString();
    return ( name +' Name length = '+ name.length );   
}

ok, this is totally wrong I know, it was just to describe somehow.
It’s not for a purpose, just to understand. (better useful examples are welcome) Thanks!

Answer 1

You want to make use of protoypal inheritance

https://stackoverflow.com/a/572996

http://javascript.crockford.com/prototypal.html