Array is skipped on serialize

[rxaviers]

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/rLDHc/1

Should it be accomplished in a different way? I noticed that when an Array is set by .attr(), it is wrapped into another Object with its own .serialize() method. This method is called instead of its type Class.serialize.

[codr]

You are right, the array is converted into an can.Observe.List here and here. It's own serialize takes precedence.

One solution is to build the can.Observe.List yourself and give it a serialize function.
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/rLDHc/5/

[rxaviers]

Yeap, that's awkward. Thanks for the workaround though.

Considering an Array could be part of a model (an attribute), it should behave just like any other datatypes.

[imjoshdean]

As @codr mentioned, can.Observe's serialize takes precedence, because this is the root of how can.Observes work. That said, this is being investigated in #274.

In the mean time, @codr's solution works. And I am going to close so we have only one issue open for the same thing.