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Passing Argument to JavaScript Object Getter

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var URIController = {

    get href() {

        return url.location.href;

    }

}

I have above object structure. But URIController.href property depends on another object, url.

If the url is defined globally, URIController.href works. But I want to pass url object to href getter manually.

var URIController = {

    get href(url) {

        return url.location.href;

    }

}

Changed the getter to accept url parameter but

URIController.href(url)

throws error because href is not a function.

Is it possible to pass arguments to getter in javascript?

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answered 8 Years ago adrienkeithr · Accepted Answer

Getters do not require explicit invocation with parentheses and cannot therefore accept arguments. Their invocation is implicit via standard property access syntax, e.g. URIController.href.

From getter documentation on MDN:

The get syntax binds an object property to a function...

It must have exactly zero parameters

______

If you need to accept arguments, use a function instead:

var URIController = {

    href: function (url) {

        return url.location.href;

    }

}

Or using ES6 object function shorthand syntax:

const URIController = {

    href (url) {

        return url.location.href;

    }

}