Futon implicit typing when adding/editing fields is flawed
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Key: COUCHDB-667
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-667
Project: CouchDB
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Futon
Affects Versions: 0.11
Environment: Linux (Ubuntu 9.10), Chromium/Firefox
Reporter: Matt Goodall
Futon's doc editor tries to guess the type of values, often getting it wrong.
I discovered it when a JSON object containing items was turned into a string,
breaking my application. e.g. {...} was quoted giving "{...}". Unfortunately, I
cannot reproduce this.
However, other (admittedly contrived) examples are:
1. Add a field and enter the string "1" as the value. Edit the value and try to
enter the number 1 instead. The value is implicitly converted back to a string.
2. Add a field and enter the string "[]" as the value. Try to change the value
to the string "[100]". The value is implicitly converted to the list [100].
Personally, I think the implicit type conversion is a really bad idea and
should be removed. It might be nice to special-case the doc id but even that
doesn't really seem worth the effort.
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