Copying an Object

//The following function performs such a copy: function copyObject(orig) { // 1. copy has same prototype as orig var copy = Object.create(Object.getPrototypeOf(orig)); // 2. copy has all of orig’s properties copyOwnPropertiesFrom(copy, orig); return copy; } //The properties are copied from orig to copy via this function: function copyOwnPropertiesFrom(target, source) { Object.getOwnPropertyNames(source) // (1) .forEach(function(propKey) { // (2) var desc = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(source, propKey); // (3) Object.defineProperty(target, propKey, desc); // (4) }); return target; };
To create an identical copy of an object, you need to get two things right:
1. The copy must have the same prototype (see “Layer 2: The Prototype Relationship
Between Objects” on page 211) as the original.
2. The copy must have the same properties, with the same attributes as the original.

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