I am confused about using apply or call method correctly.
I know that apply is passing an array to the function and call is passing strings to a function.
For example the code below, what does "this"really have to do with the code? if it has nothing to do with this code, then can anyone give me an example when "this" is implementing appropriately?
function myFunction(a, b) {
return a * b;
}
myArray = [10,2];
myFunction.apply(this, myArray);
It's the context for the function. If you have this.something inside the function, it will access that particular property from that context object.
function foo(bar) {
this.bar = bar;
}
foo.apply(this, ['Hello']); //calling foo using window as context (this = window in global context in browser)
console.log(this.bar); //as you can see window.bar is the same as this.bar
console.log(window.bar);
var ctx = {}; //create a new context
foo.apply(ctx, ['Good night']);
console.log(ctx.bar); //ctx now has bar property that is injected from foo function
Open up your dev console to see result.
See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Function/apply
this
is the scope of the Apply/Call
function. An example is:
function test() {
alert(this.a);
}
(function () {
this.a = "test";
test();//test
var self = this;
(function () {
this.a = "Foo";
test();//Foo
test.apply(self, []);//test
}());
}());
The first argument will be the this
in your function.
ie:
var p = {"name":"someone"};
function myFunction(a, b) {
console.log(this);
return a*b;
}
var myArray = [10,2];
myFunction.apply(p, myArray); //log output shows {"name":"someone"}