method-generator v1.0.0

I don't know how reusable this class is. It was originally written to automatically generate methods for the ArrayEditor class. ArrayEditor has properties that are instances of other classes, each with its own set of methods. I wanted to use those properties (but keep them private) by creating substitute methods for each one of their methods, which would then call the original method and then return the ArrayEditor instance so you could chain other method calls one after another. The resulting methods are named using this convention: this.propertyName_methodName() . So for instance, ArrayEditor has a property '_remove', which has a method 'adjacentItems()'. Its substitute method would automatically be called this.remove_adjacentItems().

MethodGenerator should be injected into the constructor of the target class (such as ArrayEditor), have its properties (targetInstance and nameofFunctionToCallInEachNewMethod) set, and then you call its method generatePublicMethodsFor(), with an array of the necessary property names passed into it. Look at the constructor of ArrayEditor for reference.

nameofFunctionToCallInEachNewMethod needs to be a method belonging to targetInstance.

Only non-inherited methods of the specified properties will have substitute functions generated. Private and protected methods are ignored. It's assumed you're giving private/protected methods names beginning with underscores, so only methods that don't begin with an underscore will automatically get a substitute method.

Also important: since the methods aren't generated until runtime, when you're writing code that calls them, a linting tool like TSLint will tell you these methods don't exist. Tell TSLint to stuff its face.