Is there a way to get the name of a type of a caller of a function in TypeScript? Alternatively is there a way to get the name of the type of the current object?
Something like:
export class SomeData {
sampleFunc() {
console.log(this.getTypeName());
}
//or
anotherFunc(caller: any) {
console.log(caller.getTypeName());
}
}
getTypeName is the desired functionality here. The types in TypeScript vanish after compiling. There is typeof (to get the class definition object itself) but I can not see how to get the name.
One usage for this could be cleaner logging with console.group(name) and console.groupEnd() - at least at development time.
Edit:
As far as I've searched, there is a Polyfill for Metadata Reflection API proposal "to add Decorators to ES7, along with a prototype for an ES7 Reflection API for Decorator Metadata". One can use that cooperatively along with decorators in TypeScript.