Is there a way to add "hidden" non-enumerable properties to a JavaScript object that works cross-browser?
For most modern browsers, you can do:
Object.defineProperty(obj, '__id__', { enumerable: false, value: id++ });
For some older non-IE browsers that don't have Object.defineProperty
, you can use the __proto__
hack.
None of those, however, work for IE. Is there a way to accomplish this in IE8 (would be cool if IE7 too, but not necessary)?
The main goal is to be able to add tracker properties to any JavaScript {}
object, but such that when you call JSON.stringify(obj)
, it doesn't get included in the property. I realize you can add custom JSON replacer functions (basically extending the JSON.stringify
functionality), but I'm not a big fan of that because it means any time you serialized these tracked JavaScript Objects into JSON, you would have to know/remember to add that replacer function which is pretty impractical.
Is there any way to accomplish this?