Accessor property and its attributes in JavaScript

Javascript Web Development Object Oriented Programming

The accessor property helps us in implementing getter and setter functions in JavaScript.They execute a function on getting or setting a value.

There are four attributes of an accessor property −

get − It gets called when a property is read. It doesn’t’ take any arguments/
set − It gets called when a property is set. It takes only one argument.
enumerable − Allows the object to be iterable when set to true.
configurable − When set to false it will not allow to delete the property or change its values.

Following is the code for accessor property and its attributes −

Example

Live Demo

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<title>Document</title>
<style>
   body {
      font-family: "Segoe UI", Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;
   }
   .result {
      font-size: 20px;
      font-weight: 500;
      color: blueviolet;
   }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Accessor property and its attributes</h1>
<div class="result"></div>
<br />
<button class="Btn">CLICK HERE</button>
<h3>Click on the above button to use set and get to modify and display person object properties</h3>
<script>
   let resEle = document.querySelector(".result");
   let BtnEle = document.querySelector(".Btn");
   let person = {
      name: "Rohan",
      age: 22,
      occupation: "Student",
      get fullname() {
         return this.name;
      },
      set job(occupation) {
         this.occupation = occupation;
      },
   };
   BtnEle.addEventListener("click", () => {
      resEle.innerHTML =
      "Name = " + person.fullname + " : Occupation = " + person.occupation;
      resEle.innerHTML += "<br>After modifying occupation property <br>";
      person.occupation = "Developer";
      resEle.innerHTML += "New Occupation = " + person.occupation;
   });
</script>
</body>
</html>