Changes to $.data illogical in certain case

[antti.kumpulainen@…]

This applies to all browsers and version 1.6 only.

I have a  test case to reproduce the error.

I'm expecting that if I use .data('foo-bar') I get the data from 'foo-bar' or 'fooBar', but NOT "randomly".

Currently if .data('foo-bar', 'something') is called, after that .data('foo-bar') returns something even if fooBar has a value.

There are two solutions:

a) Do not return camel cased version with .data('foo-bar').

b) When setting .data('foo-bar', 'something'), set the camel cased version and not the actual 'foo-bar'.

[dmethvin]

Agreed, as we discussed on IRC. It seemed like using the camel-cased name consistently would be the best approach. Thanks!

[John Resig]

Make sure that data properties with hyphens are always accessed/set using camelCase. Fixes #9124.

Changeset: a5e407cafb9d398b5bf2f209ad0e8a42691bf391

[pscassidy@…]

I think this is counter-intuitive behaviour. Why would a user who has set a data property with "foo-bar" expect that the *only* way they can retrieve it is via "foobar".

The problem is that "foo-bar" is an illegal name in js - hence the HTML 5 spec on hyphens in data attributes.

If data is to follow the HTML 5 spec on js dataset access a better (consistent) solution would be to make hyphenated names illegal in data.

[rwaldron]

There is a pull request pending to allow access via hyphenated and camel cased property keys