Factory method

Let's assume that we have a User class with two private variables: lastName:string and firstName:string. In addition, this simple class proposes the hellomethod that prints "Hi I am", this.firstName, this.lastName:

class User{
     constructor(private lastName:string, private firstName:string){
     }
     hello(){
         console.log("Hi I am", this.firstName, this.lastName);
     }
 }

Now, consider that we receive users through a JSON API. It'll more than likely look something like this:

[{"lastName":"Nayrolles","firstName":"Mathieu"}...].  

With the following snippet, we can create a User:

let userFromJSONAPI: User = JSON.parse('[{"lastName":"Nayrolles","firstName":"Mathieu"}]')[0];

 

 

Until now, the TypeScript compiler doesn't complain, and it executes smoothly. It works because the parse method returns any (for example, the TypeScript equivalent of the Java object). Sure enough, we can convert the any into User. However, userFromJSONAPI.hello(); will yield the following:

json...