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#7945 closed bug (fixed)

Opened January 11, 2011 07:39AM UTC

Closed February 01, 2011 11:34PM UTC

Last modified March 09, 2012 03:47PM UTC

jQuery.param thinks that { jquery: "1.4.2" } is a jQuery object

Reported by: anton@kovalyov.net Owned by:
Priority: high Milestone: 1.5.1
Component: ajax Version: 1.5
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked by: Blocking:
Description

I stumbled upon a bug where .param thought that { jquery: "1.4.2" } is a jQuery object and tried to iterate over it as it was an array. The result was undefined=undefined instead of jquery=1.4.2.

I made a commit fixing the problem and opened a pull request here: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/174 but it was closed.

I was asked to clarify about the use case so here is the real world example. I am working on a feature that will collect some statistical data from pages where our widget is installed. I started with popular frameworks, and my code sends key/value data where key is a framework name and value is its version.

Now every time I try to send something like { "jquery": "1.4.2" } via .ajax, the server gets undefined=undefined in its POST data. And that applies to any dictionary that has "jquery" string as a key.


The second comment was that we can't use instanceof since there is a possibility that an object was created by some other jQuery instance. That makes sense. My initial approach was to check if a.jquery is a function. That covers multiple jQuery instances problem.

As Paul said in the comment to the pull request above, I got some helpful advise from Ben Alman so we might want his feedback on this issue as well.

I can make another pull request once we agree on the approach here.

Anton

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Changed January 11, 2011 07:47AM UTC by paul.irish comment:1

For context, Anton is the lead js dev at Disqus.

Changed January 14, 2011 10:26PM UTC by anton@kovalyov.net comment:2

So, I went ahead and made another (now proper) pull request: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/181. Let me know what do you think.

Changed January 17, 2011 11:43PM UTC by rwaldron comment:3

component: unfiledajax
priority: undecidedblocker
status: newopen

Changed January 25, 2011 01:47AM UTC by dmethvin comment:4

milestone: 1.next1.6

Just moving this to 1.6 so we can consider the patch.

Changed February 01, 2011 11:34PM UTC by paul.irish comment:5

_comment0: Fixes #7945. Make jQuery.param() serialize plain objects with a property named jquery correctly. \ Changeset: fdd4101fe93321f33b916a92b5def1328ea331b31296603458500466
resolution: → fixed
status: openclosed

Fixes #7945. Make jQuery.param() serialize plain objects with a property named jquery correctly.

Changeset: fdd4101fe93321f33b916a92b5def1328ea331b3

https://github.com/jquery/jquery/commit/fdd4101fe93321f33b916a92b5def1328ea331b3

Changed February 01, 2011 11:39PM UTC by jitter comment:6

milestone: 1.61.5.1
priority: blockerhigh
version: 1.4.41.5