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The constructor data property of an Object instance returns a reference to the constructor function that created the instance object. Note that the value of this property is a reference to the function itself, not a string containing the function's name.

But even when Object.getPrototypeOf(a).constructor is re-assigned, it won't change other behaviors of the object. For example, the behavior of instanceof is controlled by Symbol.hasInstance, not constructor:

There is nothing protecting the constructor property from being re-assigned or shadowed, so using it to detect the type of a variable should usually be avoided in favor of less fragile ways like instanceof and Symbol.toStringTag for objects, or typeof for primitives.

Every constructor has a prototype property, which will become the instance's [[Prototype]] when called via the new operator. ConstructorFunction.prototype.constructor will therefore become a property on the instance's [[Prototype]], as previously demonstrated.

However, ensuring that Child.prototype.constructor always points to Child itself is crucial when some caller is using constructor to access the original class from an instance. Take the following case: the object has the create() method to create itself.

Object.setPrototypeOf() comes with its potential performance downsides because all previously created objects involved in the prototype chain have to be re-compiled; but if the above initialization code happens before Parent or CreatedConstructor are constructed, the effect should be minimal.

Note: Manually updating or setting the constructor can lead to different and sometimes confusing consequences. To prevent this, just define the role of constructor in each specific case. In most cases, constructor is not used and reassigning it is not necessary.

Note: The difference between an explicit constructor like the one above and the default constructor is that the latter doesn't actually invoke the array iterator through argument spreading.

The ValidationError class doesn't need an explicit constructor, because it doesn't need to do any custom initialization. The default constructor then takes care of initializing the parent Error from the argument it is given.

Within the constructor body, you can access the object being created through this and access the class that is called with new through new.target. Note that methods (including getters and setters) and the prototype chain are already initialized on this before the constructor is executed, so you can even access methods of the subclass from the constructor of the superclass. However, if those methods use this, the this will not have been fully initialized yet. This means reading public fields of the derived class will result in undefined, while reading private fields will result in a TypeError.

If the parent class constructor returns an object, that object will be used as the this value on which class fields of the derived class will be defined. This trick is called "return overriding", which allows a derived class's fields (including private ones) to be defined on unrelated objects.

Async methods, generator methods, accessors, and class fields are forbidden from being called constructor. Private names cannot be called #constructor. Any member named constructor must be a plain method.

super() calls the constructor that's the prototype of the current class. If you change the prototype of the current class itself, super() will call the constructor that's the new prototype. Changing the prototype of the current class's prototype property doesn't affect which constructor super() calls.

\n The ValidationError class doesn't need an explicit constructor, because it doesn't need to do any custom initialization.\n The default constructor then takes care of initializing the parent Error from the argument it is given.\n

If the parent class constructor returns an object, that object will be used as the this value on which class fields of the derived class will be defined. This trick is called \"return overriding\", which allows a derived class's fields (including private ones) to be defined on unrelated objects.

A constructor in Java is a special method that is used to initialize objects. The constructor is called when an object of a class is created. It can be used to set initial values for object attributes:

The following example adds an int y parameter to the constructor. Inside the constructor we set x to y (x=y). When we call the constructor, we pass a parameter to the constructor (5), which will set the value of x to 5:

The below code works when launched when created as an html page in notepad. However, once I try to deploy as part of a Asp.net Core project it will not display unless i change the Arcgis SDK down to 4.15. Anything greater than SDK 4.16 will not work. Can't find any reason for this on the web. Below code returns error: Uncaught TypeError: MapView is not a constructor.

It sounds like you may have reversed the order of your script tags, making what used to be first one now the second. However, the "shorter" script tag needs to come before the "longer" one. Basically, you'll have this:

Yes, that was a silly error from me, thanks for clarifying. However, it hasn't fixed my problem, unfortunately. The key to my issue lies in how visual studio and or my Asp.Net Core Web App seems to deal with the different js.arcgis.com/4XX versions. The code above works fine with sdk 4.15 but the moment I try to upgrade it to 4.16 or higher it returns the 'not a constructor' error. It is as though visual studio or my app just can't read the sdk reference or the require tags. Any thoughts what might be causing this or a suggested workaround?

Unfortunately, I don't think I'll be able to offer much else here. I remember a project a co-worker was working on had an issue resembling this one, and our solution at the time was to do what I described above. It seemed like some other components on the page had their own version of a "require" function which was causing the conflict, but that's about all I recall.

I followed Gavin's advice above and got my map to render just fine. However, commenting out the jquery and bootstrap references in the_Layout page disabled the other bootstrap objects my app was using. For example, bootstrap tabs and collapse items no longer functioned. Any thoughts or advice? Thanks in advance.

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Treehouse is giving you an error here because your class is called Spaceship, but your constructor is called SpaceShip (notice the capital "S" in "Ship"). Java is case-sensitive, so it interprets these as 2 unrelated names. You need to make these names match for Java to understand that you mean it to be a constructor for the Spaceship class.