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July 25, 2012 19:03
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Creating javascript namespaces
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| // Chatham Namespace for exposing javascript functionality | |
| // We can expose all of our functionality via this one global var | |
| var CHATHAM = CHATHAM || {}; | |
| CHATHAM.namespace = function (namespace_name_string) { | |
| var parts = namespace_name_string.split('.'), | |
| parent = CHATHAM, | |
| i, cnt; | |
| // remove the first part of the string which will be 'CHATHAM' | |
| if (parts[0] === 'CHATHAM') { | |
| parts = parts.slice(1); | |
| } | |
| cnt = parts.length; | |
| for (i = 0; i < cnt; i += 1) { | |
| // create and add the property if it doesn't exist | |
| if (typeof parent[parts[i]] === 'undefined') { | |
| parent[parts[i]] = {}; | |
| } | |
| parent = parent[parts[i]]; | |
| } | |
| return parent; | |
| }; |
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