May the defineProperty method of a proxy handler throw a TypeError?
David Flanagan
dflanagan at mozilla.com
Thu May 26 10:10:56 PDT 2011
On 5/26/11 9:35 AM, David Flanagan wrote:
> On 5/26/11 6:36 AM, Tom Van Cutsem wrote:
>> Hi David,
>>
>> The short answer: if you also define a 'set' trap, throwing a
>> TypeError from defineProperty() to signal rejection is appropriate
>
> Thanks. I was worried that defineProperty() was required to honor
> property changes since getOwnPropertyDescriptor() is required to say
> that the properties are configurable. (I've read the justification
> for that in the proposal multiple times, but I've never been able to
> understand it...)
Responding to my own message... I think I now understand the
configurable property requirement of getOwnPropertyDescriptor. Is it
for conformance with these paragraphs from §8.6.2 of the ECMA-262 spec?
> The [[GetOwnProperty]] internal method of a host object must conform
> to the following invariants for each property of the host object:
> . If a property is described as a data property and it may return
> different values over time, then either or both of the [[Writable]]
> and [[Configurable] attributes must be true even if no mechanism to
> change the value is exposed via the other internal methods.
> . If a property is described as a data property and its
> [[Writable]] and [[Configurable]] are both false, then the SameValue
> (according to 9.12) must be returned for the [[Value]] attribute of
> the property on all calls to [[GetOwnProperty]].
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