Any naming conventions regarding custom properties on NodeJS socket object

[Zhongcai Ng]

Am tagging custom properties on NodeJS socket objects. ie, socket.id, socket.someCustomProperty, etc.

Like to ask if there's any prohibition imposed on custom property names. Am scared that I will break something unintentionally. With current and future versions of NodeJS

[Aria Stewart]

On Monday, March 23, 2015 at 11:20:12 PM UTC-4, Zhongcai Ng wrote:

Am tagging custom properties on NodeJS socket objects. ie, socket.id, socket.someCustomProperty, etc.

Like to ask if there's any prohibition imposed on custom property names. Am scared that I will break something unintentionally. With current and future versions of NodeJS

That's tough. It's a wide open namespace, and predicting the future is impossible.

If you can use ES6 features, consider not putting the property on the object, but instead using a WeakMap, and keeping your own stuff separate:

    var wm = new WeakMap();
    wm.set(socket, { yourproperty: value });

    wm.get(socket).yourproperty

If not, namespace hard. Perhaps socket.yourmodulename.yourproperty? socket['yourmodulename:yourproperty']?

Aria

[Fedor Indutny]

I guess the important question to ask is: do you really need it in a first place? Is it possible to wrap the net.Socket into some other object on your application level, and set the properties on it instead?

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