Determine if an object property is ko.observable
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I'm using KnockoutJS version 2.0.0
If I'm looping through all properties of an object, how can I test whether each property is a ko.observable
? Here's what I've tried so far:
var vm = {
prop: ko.observable(''),
arr: ko.observableArray([]),
func: ko.computed(function(){
return this.prop + " computed";
}, vm)
};
for (var key in vm) {
console.log(key,
vm[key].constructor === ko.observable,
vm[key] instanceof ko.observable);
}
But so far everything is false.
Javascript Solutions
Solution 1 - Javascript
Knockout includes a function called ko.isObservable()
. You can call it like ko.isObservable(vm[key])
.
Update from comment:
Here is a function to determine if something is a computed observable:
ko.isComputed = function (instance) {
if ((instance === null) || (instance === undefined) || (instance.__ko_proto__ === undefined)) return false;
if (instance.__ko_proto__ === ko.dependentObservable) return true;
return ko.isComputed(instance.__ko_proto__); // Walk the prototype chain
};
UPDATE: If you are using KO 2.1+ - then you can use ko.isComputed
directly.
Solution 2 - Javascript
Knockout has the following function which I think is what you are looking for:
ko.isObservable(vm[key])
Solution 3 - Javascript
To tack on to RP Niemeyer's answer, if you're simply looking to determine if something is "subscribable" (which is most often the case). Then ko.isSubscribable
is also available.
Solution 4 - Javascript
I'm using
ko.utils.unwrapObservable(vm.key)
Update: As of version 2.3.0, ko.unwrap
was added as substitute for ko.utils.unwrapObservable