Within my code, I have a parent class where I am creating a function called store-relation and a child class that defines a table in the store. The issue arises when I try to connect the save() function from the parent class to the child's table which is not defined until later. I attempted to solve this by passing the child's tableName attribute to the parent's constructor, but my linter flagged an error stating that super must be called before referencing this.
Here is the snippet of the parent class:
export class StoredObject {
constructor(private tableName: string) {}
public save() {
store.collection(this.tableName) //...
}
}
And here is the child class:
export class Inventory extends StoredObject {
tableName = "inventory";
constructor(
public myVar //...
) {
super(this.tableName)
}
}
I understand that one solution is to use a getter function to return the value of this.tableName, but that feels like a workaround. Another option would be to hardcode the string directly into super (e.g., in the Inventory constructor, using { super("inventory") }), but that approach seems less elegant. It seems like there should be a more conventional way to achieve what I'm attempting to do, but so far I haven't been able to find it.