Is it possible to reflect the arguments of a Javascript function?

it is possible get all the formal parameter name of a javascript:

var FN_ARGS = /^function\s*[^\(]*\(\s*([^\)]*)\)/m;
var FN_ARG_SPLIT = /,/;
var FN_ARG = /^\s*(_?)(\S+?)\1\s*$/;
var STRIP_COMMENTS = /((\/\/.*$)|(\/\*[\s\S]*?\*\/))/mg;

function formalParameterList(fn) {
   var fnText,argDecl;
   var args=[];
   fnText = fn.toString().replace(STRIP_COMMENTS, '');
   argDecl = fnText.match(FN_ARGS); 

   var r = argDecl[1].split(FN_ARG_SPLIT);
   for(var a in r){
      var arg = r[a];
      arg.replace(FN_ARG, function(all, underscore, name){
         args.push(name);
      });
   }
   return args;
 }

this can be tested this way :

 var expect = require('expect.js');
 expect( formalParameterList(function() {} )).to.eql([]);
 expect( formalParameterList(function () {} )).to.eql([]);
 expect( formalParameterList(function /*  */ () {} )).to.eql([]);
 expect( formalParameterList(function (/* */) {} )).to.eql([]);
 expect( formalParameterList(function ( a,   b, c  ,d /* */, e) {} )).to.eql(['a','b','c','d','e']);

Note: This technique is use with the $injector of AngularJs and implemented in the annotate function. (see https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/src/auto/injector.js and the corresponding unit test in https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/master/auto/injectorSpec.js )

This new version handles fat arrow functions as well...

args = f => f.toString ().replace (/[\r\n\s]+/g, ' ').
              match (/(?:function\s*\w*)?\s*(?:\((.*?)\)|([^\s]+))/).
              slice (1,3).
              join ('').
              split (/\s*,\s*/);

function ftest (a,
                 b,
                 c) { }

let aftest = (a,
                 b,
                 c) => a + b / c;

console.log ( args (ftest),  // = ["a", "b", "c"] 
              args (aftest), // = ["a", "b", "c"]
              args (args)    // = ["f"]
             );

Here is what I think you are looking for :

 function ftest (a,
                 b,
                 c) { }
 var args = ftest.toString ().
              replace (/[\r\n\s]+/g, ' ').
              match (/function\s*\w*\s*\((.*?)\)/)[1].split (/\s*,\s*/);

args will be an array of the names of the arguments of test i.e. ['a', 'b', 'c']

The value is args will be an array of the parameter names if the ftest is a function. The array will be empty if ftest has not parameters. The value of args will be null if ftest fails the regular expression match, i.e it is not a function.