I have the following code where I want to invoke the instance method connect
before proceeding with the invocation of every other instance method of the TelegramClient
class. How can this be achieved by making use of Proxy
. As of now the connect
method does not execute.
class TelegramClient {
async connect() {
console.log("Connecting to Telegram...");
// Simulate some asynchronous work
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));
console.log("Connected!");
}
sendMessage(message: string) {
console.log(`Sending message: ${message}`);
}
}
const telegramClient = new TelegramClient();
// Create a Proxy for the Telegram client
const proxiedTelegramClient = new Proxy(telegramClient, {
async apply(target, thisArg, argumentsList) {
await target.connect(); // Connect to Telegram before invoking the method
const result = Reflect.apply(target, thisArg, argumentsList);
return result;
},
});
proxiedTelegramClient.sendMessage("Hello, Telegram!");
this is my code. So the output that I want is:
Connecting to Telegram...
Connected!
Sending message: Hello, Telegram!
3
Answers
this can be resolved using a "get" instead of "apply" handler
but if you want to keep code as it is, you can mak use of
hope it helps
The main problem here is that
apply
is notasync
, markingasync
won’t change that.Rather than trying to intercept the
sendMessage
method, another option is to auto-wrap the function inside theget
.Below is an example, I’ve also use a
Set
to make sure during get themethod
does not get wrapped again. Also added a connected property, as sending another message shouldn’t require another connect.A viable approach which does not utilize a proxy was to use a generic implementation of an async
around
method-modifier. The latter can be seen as a specialized case of function-wrapping.Such a modifier accepts two functions,
proceed
andhandler
as well as atarget
-object as its 3 parameters. It does return an async function which again is going to return the awaited result of the (assumed async)handler
(callback) function. The latter does get invoked within the context of the (optionally) providedtarget
while also getting passed theproceed
-function, its ownhandler
-reference and the modified function’sarguments
-array.Thus, based on such a modifier, the OP could achieve the expected behavior by modifying e.g. a client instance’s
sendMessage
-method like this …… where
connectClientBeforeProceed
is thehandler
function which implements exactly what the OP is looking for …… Example code …