I have a few questions regarding the code below:
export class Person {
constructor(obj = { id: 0, name: '', lastName: '', eyeColor: '', age: 0 }) {
this.id = obj.id;
this.name = obj.name;
this.lastName = obj.lastName;
this.eyeColor = obj.eyeColor;
this.age = obj.age;
}
yearOfBirth() {
return new Date().getFullYear() - this.age;
}
json() {
return JSON.stringify(this);
}
}
FWIW: I prefer to create an object using this syntax:
let newPerson = new Person(
{
id: 0,
name: "Werner",
lastName: "Venter",
age: 37
}
);
I really dislike this way:
let newPerson = new Person(0, "Werner", "Venter", 37);
It just reads easier for me when I have the parameter name with the value. Anyway, I digress...
Thank you in advance guys. Really appreciate this community.
Is this the correct/accepted way to create an object class? I will be using it to receive data from an API that sends it in this format as JSON.
Yes, you have created a class which handles some properties of an object, in this way you must pass a class to the constructor. (because you've used statements such as obj.name)
How do I make a parameter optional? Mainly why I need this is that the ID value is not required when creating a new entry on the API, so I would prefer not to include the ID value when creating the object.
You just did, by declaring obj = <some_object>, note that by what you did here, in case no object will be passed when you create a new instance of Person, the default object you have provided will be used as a default value.
let newPerson = new Person(0, "Werner", "Venter", 37);
This one is wrong btw, your constructor method excepts one parameter while in the example above 4 are provided.
This way is the correct one indeed (but it drag an error because eyeColor was not provided):
let newPerson = new Person( { id: 0, name: "Werner", lastName: "Venter", age: 37 } );