I find myself trying to use decorators with the native javascript private properties (#) and these first 'recognize' that are in use do not work.
I identified this by using the class-validator decorators on the private properties of my value objects.
The error I get in my code editor is: Decorators are not valid here
Example:
import { IsString } from 'class-validator';
Class Person {
@IsString()
#name: string;
constructor(name: string) {
this.#name = name;
}
get name(): string {
return this.#name;
}
}
Okey as suggested by VLAZ:
Private fields in JS are completely private and inaccessible to anything from outside. Thus it makes sense they cannot be decorated - there is no way for the decorator to access them.
This is completely correct, so when I took a closer look at the value object I realized that it does have public get properties, so by testing it is possible to use decorators on those properties.
Leaving something like:
import { IsString } from 'class-validator';
Class Person {
#name: string;
constructor(name: string) {
this.#name = name;
}
@IsString()
get name(): string {
return this.#name;
}
}