[jira] [Commented] (COUCHDB-1476) In view map function doc object does not have .constructor defined on any of the contained objects.

["James Howe (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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James Howe commented on COUCHDB-1476:
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What's wrong with Array.isArray and typeof v === 'object', or even just JSON.parse to do JSON parsing?
Take it up with the library developers if they're using broken context-dependent code.
                
> In view map function doc object does not have .constructor defined on any of the contained objects.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COUCHDB-1476
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1476
>             Project: CouchDB
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: JavaScript View Server
>    Affects Versions: 1.2
>         Environment: CouchDB 1.2 Release binary on Windows 2003
>            Reporter: Andrew Reslan
>            Priority: Minor
>
> I am doing some complex view map processing using external libraries.
> These libraries use the following checks when parsing a JSON document:
> function _isObject(v) {
>   return (v !== null && !_isUndefined(v) && v.constructor === Object);
> }
> function _isArray(v) {
>   return (v !== null && !_isUndefined(v) && v.constructor === Array);
> }
> The 'doc' object passed to the mapping function does not appear to have the .constructor property defined, nor on any of the enclosed objects, this causes the JSON processing to fail.
> A simple workaround is to stringily the doc object and parse the results back, the fixed document then has the .constructor properties correctly set on all objects
> var fixed = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(doc));

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