To see the methods available to an object I am able to do:
console.log(Object.getOwnPropertyNames(Object));But then why doesn't it give the properties when I pass it an instance of a particular object type (I hope that is the correct terminology?). For example, in the following n has one method called toFixed but it doesn't show up when trying to get the property names.
let n = 1234.567;
console.log(n.toFixed(1));
console.log(Object.getOwnPropertyNames(n));getOwnPropertyNames, as it sounds, gets only the own properties of the object.
But numbers are primitives, not objects - and toFixed is on Number.prototype, not on Number instances. The number has no own properties.
console.log(Object.getOwnPropertyNames(Number.prototype));For another example, with a proper object:
class X {
protoMethod(){}
}
const x = new X();
// Empty:
console.log(Object.getOwnPropertyNames(x));
// The prototype has the own-property of the method:
console.log(Object.getOwnPropertyNames(X.prototype));Try Object.getPrototypeOf. All the methods are defined in the prototype of the object.
console.log(Object.getPrototypeOf(n));