Get name of property from its own function

Question

I would like to get the name of a property from within its own function. My current approach does not work because the function is nameless. How can I do this?

window.APP = {
    models: {
        ex_model: kendo.observable({
            ex_property: function () {
                var property_name = arguments.callee.name.toString();
                console.log(property_name);
            },
        }),
    }
}

Thank you.

thanks for the votes; I have this question submitted to Telerik's support team and we have 24 hour response time subscription — xinthose, Dec 02 '15 at 22:12

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 02 '15 at 22:37

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You can make ex_property have a name. Instead of using function(), you can say function function_name(), and then arguments.callee.name.toString() would return function_name. Like this:

window.APP = {
    models: {
        ex_model: kendo.observable({
            ex_property: function function_name() {
                var property_name = arguments.callee.name.toString();
                console.log(property_name); // will return function_name
            },
        }),
    }
}

answered Dec 02 '15 at 22:37

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yes, I realized this as well, thank you; but I'm trying to shave time off of coding (time = $$) and that would be an extra copy and paste, but still not bad – xinthose Dec 02 '15 at 22:48

Get name of property from its own function

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