A library of common, highly reusable JavaScript utility functions.
Most of the functions deal with extending JavaScript's native data types, which I am doing by default at the end of the file.
By default, data type extensions are applied automatically. So you can call "test".count('t'), for instance, right out of the box.
If you wish to change this behavior simply comment out (or delete) the last section of the code.
Beyond that, all functions live nested in the UTIL object under the JMM object for the time being—this is a holdover from my legacy code which will eventually go away.
You can, of course, alias the functions to whatever name you would like (e.g. formatDate = JMM.UTIL.dateFormat;).
Using JasmineBDD I have built unit tests for this library. All tests can be found under the spec/ directory.
Localization can be accomplished for dateFormat by setting the names as a hash on the function object. To implement Spanish, for example:
JMM.UTIL.dateFormat.i18n = {
dayNames: [
"dom", "lun", "mar", "mié", "jue", "vie", "sáb",
"domingo", "lunes", "martes", "miércoles", "jueves", "viernes", "sábado"
],
monthNames: [
"enero", "feb", "marzo", "abr", "mayo", "jun", "jul", "agosto", "set", "oct", "nov", "dic",
"enero", "febrero", "marzo", "abril", "mayo", "junio", "julio", "agosto", "septiembre", "octubre", "noviembre", "diciembre"
]
};
Localization of the strToDate function is slightly more involved, but should be fairly flexible.
First, add to the i18n hash on the strToDate function a hash with the month names as the keys and a 0-based index as the value.
JMM.UTIL.strToDate.i18n = {
months: {
'january': 0, 'february': 1, 'march': 2, 'april': 3, 'may': 4, 'june': 5, 'july': 6, 'august': 7, 'september': 8, 'october': 9, 'november': 10, 'december': 11
, 'jan': 0, 'feb': 1, 'mar': 2, 'apr': 3, 'jun': 5, 'jul': 6, 'aug': 7, 'sep': 8, 'sept': 8, 'oct': 9, 'nov': 10, 'dec': 11
},
meses: { // Spanish (which is included by default)
'enero': 0, 'febrero': 1, 'marzo': 2, 'abril': 3, 'mayo': 4, 'junio': 5, 'julio': 6, 'agosto': 7, 'septiembre': 8, 'octubre': 9, 'noviembre': 10, 'diciembre': 12
, 'feb': 1, 'abr': 3, 'jun': 5, 'jul': 6, 'set': 8, 'oct': 9, 'nov': 10, 'dic': 11
}
};
Secondly, add a new hash to the strToDate.patterns hash which has a RegExp object (the "matcher") and a function to interpret matches (the "handler").
JMM.UTIL.strToDate.patterns = {
... // omitted
, textual_es: { // Spanish (which is included by default)
matcher: /(\d{1,2})[- ]?(Enero|Febrero|Marzo|Abril|Mayo|Junio|Julio|Agosto|Septiembre|Octubre|Noviembre|Diciembre|Feb|Abr|Jun|Jul|Set|Oct|Nov|Dic)[- ]?(\d{4})/i
, handler: function(matches, self) { return new Date(matches[3], self.i18n.meses[matches[2].toLowerCase()], matches[1]); }
}
};
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- Dual-licensed under the BSD and MIT licenses