ES5 setters are shown as 'getter' in console log

[c69]

var a = { b: 1, get x () { return this.b; }, set z (v) { return (this.b = v); } }

When we inspect 'a' in console - we see:

[-] Object b 1 x getter z getter

[hzr]

This is by design, click "getter" to evaluate.

[hzr]

Sorry, read this too fast, this is clearly a problem. Reopening.

[hzr]

No, closing again. I can't find it in the spec, but when you specify only a setter, a getter is automatically created with the value undefined. This is what you see.

[c69]

ok, but How can i inspect a setter then ?

[rchl]

Not sure what you mean by inspect a setter. I don't think you can obtain reference to the function that runs on setting value, if that's what you mean.

One might argue that 'getter' is a poor name for what not necessarily has to be a getter, in ecmascript sense. It could be a property that is just not 'trivial' to obtain and thus requires manual evaluation to get the value. Maybe we should rename 'getter' to 'fetch' or 'retrieve' for example.

[chriskr]

You can do a.__lookupSetter__("z") which returns the setter or Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(a, "z") which returns an object with configurable, enumerable, get and set.

[c69]

Thanx for the tip, this works.