es6 accessor for export class function

Question

I started working with Aurelia with ES7 and I can't figure out how to make a function public when it needs to have an argument list.

This works:

export class dummy{
  get doSomething(){
    return "something";
  }
}

dummy.doSomething()

BUT if I modify the function to have an argument list, I get an error:

get doSomething(x){
    ...
ERR: A 'get' accessor cannot have parameters.

I tried a variety of things that didn't work and Googling it is coming up with nothing. How do I declare a public function in an exported class that accepts an argument and returns a value?

Thanks.

Answer 1

get declares a getter. They are accessed like normal properties (i.e. not methods):

var foo = instance.doSomething;

That's why getters cannot have parameters.

If you don't want that, but want a method instead, remove it:

export class dummy{
  doSomething(x){
    return "something";
  }
}

If you merely use the class as a "method bag", i.e. you are not planning to create multiple instances of it, use an object instead:

export var dummy = {
  doSomething(x){
    return "something";
  }
};