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Reflect API

new Proxy(target, handler)

Creates and returns a new proxy object. The handler object may define trap functions. These traps are called whenever an operation is applied to the proxy object.

Both target and handler must be non-null objects.

Note: In the official ES6 API, Proxy will be a constructor function that will require the use of new. That is, you must write new Proxy(target, handler) to construct a proxy object. This library exports Proxy as an ordinary function which may be called with or without the new operator. For forward-compatibility, it is advised to always use new.

Proxy.revocable(target, handler)

Returns an object with properties proxy and revoke. proxy is a freshly constructed proxy, as if by calling new Proxy(target, handler). revoke() is a function that when called, renders the associated proxy unusable: any trappable operation performed on proxy after it has been revoked throws a TypeError.

When a proxy is revoked, it no longer refers to its target and handler so that these may become subject to garbage-collection.

Example:

var tuple = Proxy.revocable(target, handler);
var proxy = tuple.proxy;
var revoke = tuple.revoke;
proxy.foo // traps
revoke()  // returns undefined
proxy.foo // throws TypeError: "proxy is revoked"

Reflect.get(target, name, [receiver])

Returns the value of target's name property, or undefined if the property does not exist.

Equivalent to executing target[name], except if target[name] is an accessor. In that case, the accessor's "get" method will be executed with its this bound to receiver.

If target is a proxy, calls that proxy's get trap.

name must be a string. receiver defaults to target.

Reflect.set(target, name, value, [receiver])

Attempts to update the value of target's name property to value. Returns a boolean indicating whether or not the update happened successfully.

Equivalent to executing target[name] = value, except if target[name] is an accessor. In that case, the accessor's "set" method will be executed with its this bound to receiver.

If target is a proxy, calls that proxy's set trap.

name must be a string. receiver defaults to target.

Reflect.has(target, name)

Returns a boolean indicating whether target has an own or inherited property called "name".

Equivalent to performing name in target.

If target is a proxy, calls that proxy's has trap.

name must be a string.

Reflect.apply(target, receiver, args)

Calls the target function with its this-value bound to receiver and with actual arguments as specified by the args array. Returns whatever the target function returns.

If target is a proxy, calls that proxy's apply trap.

target must be a function (i.e. typeof target === "function"). args defaults to the empty array.

In non-strict code, if receiver is null or undefined, the this-value will be set to the global object instead.

Reflect.construct(target, args, [newTarget])

Equivalent to calling new target(...args), i.e. constructing a function with a variable number of arguments. Returns the value of the constructor, or the instance itself if the constructor returns a non-object value.

If target is a proxy, calls that proxy's construct trap.

newTarget defaults to target. If provided, newTarget is the constructor whose .prototype property will be used as the parent object for the newly created instance (the this value inside the constructor body). newTarget exists so that ES6 superclass constructors can create an instance whose prototype is initialized to a subclass.

target must be a function (i.e. typeof target === "function"). args must be an array. newTarget must be a function.

Reflect.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(target, name)

Returns either a property descriptor object or undefined if no own property with that name exists.

Same as the ES5 built-in Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(target, name).

If target is a proxy, calls that proxy's getOwnPropertyDescriptor trap.

name must be a string.

Reflect.defineProperty(target, name, desc)

Same as the ES5 built-in Object.defineProperty(target, name, desc) except that this function returns a boolean indicating whether or not the definition succeeded. The ES5 built-in instead either returns the target object or throws an exception.

If target is a proxy, calls that proxy's defineProperty trap.

name must be a string and desc must be a valid property descriptor object.

Reflect.getPrototypeOf(target)

Returns the prototype link of the target object.

Same as the ES5 built-in Object.getPrototypeOf(target). If target is a proxy, calls that proxy's getPrototypeOf trap.

Reflect.setPrototypeOf(target, newProto)

Mutates the prototype link of the target object and sets it to newProto. One can only set the prototype of extensible target objects. The operation will throw if target is non-extensible. This operation returns a boolean success value, indicating whether the operation succeeded.

This operation only works on platforms that support the non-standard __proto__ property, the property is mutable, and is represented as an accessor property on Object.prototype. On these platforms, this library will also define a corresponding Object.setPrototypeOf(target, newProto) function.

If target is a proxy, calls that proxy's setPrototypeOf trap.

Reflect.deleteProperty(target, name)

Attempts to delete the name property on target. Calling this function is equivalent to performing delete target[name], except that this function returns a boolean that indicates whether or not the deletion was successful.

name must be a string.

Reflect.enumerate(target)

Returns an ES6 iterator representing the enumerable own and inherited properties of the target object.

If target is a proxy, calls that proxy's enumerate trap.

The ES6 iterator can be drained into an array as follows:

var props = [];
var iterator = Reflect.enumerate(target);
var nxt = iterator.next();
while (!nxt.done) {
  props.push(nxt.value);
  nxt = iterator.next();
}
if (nxt.value !== undefined) {
  props.push(nxt.value);
}
return props;

Reflect.preventExtensions(target)

Prevents extensions to the object as if by calling Object.preventExtensions(target). Returns a boolean indicating whether the object was successfully made non-extensible.

If target is a proxy, calls that proxy's preventExtensions trap.

Reflect.isExtensible(target)

Returns a boolean indicating whether target is extensible as if by calling Object.isExtensible(target).

If target is a proxy, calls that proxy's isExtensible trap.

Reflect.ownKeys(target)

Returns an array of strings representing the target object's "own" (i.e. not inherited) property keys.

If target is a proxy, calls that proxy's ownKeys trap.

Note: in ES6, this method returns an array containing strings or symbols, rather than just strings. Symbols are a new feature in ES6 that this library does not attempt to emulate. As a result, for this shim, this method returns the same result as Object.getOwnPropertyNames(target), which only ever returns strings, never symbols (even in ES6).