Get object property name as a string

Question

Is it possible to get the object property name as a string

person = {};
person.first_name = \'Jack\';
person.last_name = \'Trades\';
person.address = {};
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Answer 1

You can wrap your property in a function and then convert the function to a string and get the property out of it.

For example:

function getPropertyName(propertyFunction) {
    return /\.([^\.;]+);?\s*\}$/.exec(propertyFunction.toString())[1];
}

Then to use it:

var myObj = {
    myProperty: "testing"
};

getPropertyName(function() { myObj.myProperty; }); // myProperty

Beware that minifiers could break this.

Edit: I have created a compiler transform that works with babel and the typescript compiler (see ts-nameof). This is a much more reliable than doing something at runtime.