Shadow

The base class for all shadow state properties. The api is purposefully spartan so as to not polute the namespace of shadow state objects. This class does provide implementations for the standard javascript methods toJSON() and toString(). toJson() is very useful in the javascript console to obtain the actual state being proxied by this shadow state property.

Each non-primitive shadow state property exposes four special, f.lux specific methods that are named so as to be unlikely to collide with normal method names:

• _() - gets this Shadow object. This method may seem superflous but when using the @shadow decorator this allows property methods to be written to work when invoked through the shadow state property or directly using this within Property methods.
• __() - gets the backing ShadowImpl instance for this shadow property
• $() - gets the Access object for obtaining information about a property.
• $$() - gets the Property managing this shadow state property.