I was wondering if there is a way to imitate PHP's magic methods __get() and __set() in Node. From this question: JavaScript getter for all properties I know you can do it in Rhino, but Node's built on V8. Does V8 have some way of doing this?

I was wondering if there is a way to imitate PHP's magic methods __get() and __set() in Node. From this question: JavaScript getter for all properties I know you can do it in Rhino, but Node's built on V8. Does V8 have some way of doing this?

• php
• javascript
• node.js
• v8
• magic-methods

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No answer? Check out nowjs. They seem to have found a way to make __get() and __set() work in JavaScript. I can't figure out how they do it from the source code. :(

EDIT: Check out Monitor All JavaScript Object Properties (magic getters and setters)

I believe you're out of luck, at least as of March 2010. At least you have __defineGetter__ and __defineSetter__, though I realize that's not the same thing. In general I think using __noSuchMethod__/__get/method_missing is not good since it makes the code harder to read. Consider trying to get by without it and see if it makes your code clearer.

Have a look at my following answer that explains how one might tackle this with the use of ES6 proxies.