Investigate using ES6 Proxy with `r.row`

[marshall007]

The ES6 Proxy object allows you to capture getter and setter calls on an object. I haven't had a chance to use these much yet, but I was thinking it could provide some nice syntactic sugar when using r.row. For example:

r.row = new Proxy(r.row, {
  get: function (row, prop) {
    if (prop in row) {
      return row[prop]; // existing ReQL term
    }
    return row(prop); // get field
  }
});

r.row.foo.bar === r.row('foo')('bar')

Similar to the behavior of other drivers, this would allow you to access document properties as if they were defined on r.row at runtime, which is pretty cool!

[neumino]

That would be neat. I wonder how much confusion that will throw though. It's a bit harder to know what is executed in the client site, what is on the server site.

But yea, it's definitively a cool stuff :)

[thelinuxlich]

Cool!!