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Simple JavaScript Inheritance: http://ejohn.org/blog/simple-javascript-inheritance/. Updated to play nice with Require.js.
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/* Simple JavaScript Inheritance | |
* By John Resig http://ejohn.org/ | |
* MIT Licensed. | |
*/ | |
// Inspired by base2 and Prototype | |
define(function() { | |
var initializing = false, fnTest = /xyz/.test(function(){xyz;}) ? /\b_super\b/ : /.*/; | |
// The base Class implementation (does nothing) | |
this.Class = function(){}; | |
// Create a new Class that inherits from this class | |
Class.extend = function(prop) { | |
var _super = this.prototype; | |
// Instantiate a base class (but only create the instance, | |
// don't run the init constructor) | |
initializing = true; | |
var prototype = new this(); | |
initializing = false; | |
// Copy the properties over onto the new prototype | |
for (var name in prop) { | |
// Check if we're overwriting an existing function | |
prototype[name] = typeof prop[name] == "function" && | |
typeof _super[name] == "function" && fnTest.test(prop[name]) ? | |
(function(name, fn){ | |
return function() { | |
var tmp = this._super; | |
// Add a new ._super() method that is the same method | |
// but on the super-class | |
this._super = _super[name]; | |
// The method only need to be bound temporarily, so we | |
// remove it when we're done executing | |
var ret = fn.apply(this, arguments); | |
this._super = tmp; | |
return ret; | |
}; | |
})(name, prop[name]) : | |
prop[name]; | |
} | |
// The dummy class constructor | |
function Class() { | |
// All construction is actually done in the init method | |
if ( !initializing && this.init ) | |
this.init.apply(this, arguments); | |
} | |
// Populate our constructed prototype object | |
Class.prototype = prototype; | |
// Enforce the constructor to be what we expect | |
Class.prototype.constructor = Class; | |
// And make this class extendable | |
Class.extend = arguments.callee; | |
return Class; | |
}; | |
return Class; | |
}); |
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