Earth Engine create user defined function with default parameters

Question

I am creating a user based function that I will save in my repository for re-use later. But I'm facing a problem with putting default values in my parameters.

var myFunction = function(number, power = 2){

return(ee.Number(a).pow(power);
}

print(myFunction(2);

print(myFunction(2,3);

The whole point is that most of the time I will want to square a number, but some time I may want to do another power. When you run the above example, you get an unexpected token error. Which is surely due to the "=" in the function definition.

How can I set default parameters?

Answer 1

You can do that easily using: Besides, yo have some missing brackets and you will have to use number inside the function where you places a.

var myFunction = function(number, power){

if (power === undefined || power === null){var power = 2}

return ee.Number(number).pow(power);
}

print(myFunction(2));

print(myFunction(2,3));