Generating metadata using a class decorator

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This time we are going to declare a class decorator that will add some metadata to a class when we applied to it:

function addMetadata(target: any) {
    
    // Add some metadata
    target.__customMetadata = {
        someKey: "someValue"
    };
    
    // Return target
    return target;

}

We can then apply the class decorator:

@addMetadata
class Person {
    private _name: string;
    public constructor(name: string) {
        this._name = name;
    }
    public greet() {
        return this._name;
    }
}

function getMetadataFromClass(target: any) {
    return target.__customMetadata;
}

console.log(getMetadataFromClass(Person));

The decorator is applied when the class is declared not when we create instances of the class. This means that the metadata is shared across all the instances of a class:

function getMetadataFromInstance(target: any) {
    return target.constructor.__customMetadata;
}

let person1 = new Person("John");
let person2 = new Person("Lisa");

console.log(getMetadataFromInstance(person1));
console.log(getMetadataFromInstance(person2));

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