Defining read-only properties in JavaScript

Question

Given an object obj, I would like to define a read-only property \'prop\' and set its value to val. Is this the proper way to do that?

Answer 1

Because of the old browsers (backwards compatibility) I had to come up with accessor functions for properties. I made it part of bob.js:

var obj = { };
//declare read-only property.
bob.prop.namedProp(obj, 'name', 'Bob', true);
//declare read-write property.
bob.prop.namedProp(obj, 'age', 1);

//get values of properties.
console.log(bob.string.formatString('{0} is {1} years old.', obj.get_name(), obj.get_age()));
//set value of read-write property.
obj.set_age(2);
console.log(bob.string.formatString('Now {0} is {1} years old.', obj.get_name(), obj.get_age()));

//cannot set read-only property of obj. Next line would throw an error.
// obj.set_name('Rob');

//Output:
//========
// Bob is 1 years old.
// Now Bob is 2 years old.

I hope it helps.