feat: introduce locale proxy (#2004)

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/faker.ts b/src/faker.ts
index a694fcc2..e715234d 100644
--- a/src/faker.ts
+++ b/src/faker.ts
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ import { FakerError } from './errors/faker-error';
 import { deprecated } from './internal/deprecated';
 import type { Mersenne } from './internal/mersenne/mersenne';
 import mersenne from './internal/mersenne/mersenne';
+import type { LocaleProxy } from './locale-proxy';
+import { createLocaleProxy } from './locale-proxy';
 import { AirlineModule } from './modules/airline';
 import { AnimalModule } from './modules/animal';
 import { ColorModule } from './modules/color';
@@ -59,7 +61,8 @@ import { mergeLocales } from './utils/merge-locales';
  * customFaker.music.genre(); // throws Error as this data is not available in `es`
  */
 export class Faker {
-  readonly definitions: LocaleDefinition;
+  readonly rawDefinitions: LocaleDefinition;
+  readonly definitions: LocaleProxy;
   private _defaultRefDate: () => Date = () => new Date();
 
   /**
@@ -329,7 +332,8 @@ export class Faker {
       locale = mergeLocales(locale);
     }
 
-    this.definitions = locale as LocaleDefinition;
+    this.rawDefinitions = locale as LocaleDefinition;
+    this.definitions = createLocaleProxy(this.rawDefinitions);
   }
 
   /**