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Array support causing unexpected value manipulated #35

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jasperjn opened this issue Sep 28, 2021 · 4 comments · May be fixed by #45
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Array support causing unexpected value manipulated #35

jasperjn opened this issue Sep 28, 2021 · 4 comments · May be fixed by #45

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@jasperjn
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jasperjn commented Sep 28, 2021 •
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Hi, there

Since our team recently upgraded set-value from v3 to v4, we found there's a severe problem dealing with numeric path.
before v4 paths are treated as properties, so it worked as expected like the following example
Screen Shot 2021-09-28 at 3 01 26 PM

but since array index supported in v4, path contains numbers that causes target object's value transformed into an array anyway, and all its properties are gone.
Screen Shot 2021-09-28 at 3 01 19 PM

the root cause might be on

set-value/index.js

Lines 148 to 150 in c574eb8

if (typeof next === 'number' && !Array.isArray(obj[key])) {
obj = obj[key] = [];
continue;

but the quandary is, how to determine a numeric path is tending to set value to an array index or an object property?

I made a codesandbox to reproduce this issue, versions switch is available on the left panel, please let me know if any further information is needed
@jasperjn
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jasperjn commented Oct 5, 2021

@KVROHITH098 Hi, what did you mean it fixed? I opened the link you provided and the version is 3.x so it did work.
but if you switch the version to 4.x it breaks!

@patrickfatrick
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I think the only way to sensibly handle arrays without breaking objects with numeric-string keys is to handle bracket notation like lodash does. eg a.b[0].c

@jasperjn
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@patrickfatrick Ditto, It should be more explicit than just turning everything into array with numeric keys.

@snowbldr
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I just experienced this issue during development. It was pretty surprising that the set-value call was deleting my data :|

At least an option to toggle this would be nice...

snowbldr added a commit to snowbldr/set-value that referenced this issue Mar 26, 2022
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Check if the target is an object instead of an array to avoid deletin…
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…g properties

fixes jonschlinkert#35
@snowbldr snowbldr linked a pull request Mar 26, 2022 that will close this issue
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Dont delete number keys snowbldr/set-value
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