Node.js patch to fix query string parser to allow irregular nesting of parameters within namespace hierarchies

0001-Fix-query-string-parser-to-allow-irregular-nesting-o.patch

From 78dfd4b323c43760d7587512ab3351c52232967e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ryan Probasco <ryan@bitdrift.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:40:12 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fix query string parser to allow irregular nesting of parameters within namespace hierarchies

---
 lib/querystring.js |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/querystring.js b/lib/querystring.js
index 69ea008..8019ef3 100644
--- a/lib/querystring.js
+++ b/lib/querystring.js
@@ -95,6 +95,11 @@ QueryString.parse = QueryString.decode = function (qs, sep, eq) {
         if (name in res) {
           if (isArray || end) {
             res = (res[name] = [res[name], next])[1];
+          } else if (typeof(res[name]) === typeof("")) {
+            // handle query strings of form: foo=hello&foo.bar=goodbye
+            // becomes: {foo:{__str__:'hello',bar:'goodbye'}}
+            res[name] = {__str__:res[name]};
+            res = res[name];
           } else {
             res = res[name];
           }
-- 
1.7.0.4