Use more correct escaping for array elements (brianc#1177)

It’s not JSON.

Author: charmander

lib/utils.js

@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@
 
 var defaults = require('./defaults');
 
+function escapeElement(elementRepresentation) {
+  var escaped = elementRepresentation
+    .replace(/\\/g, '\\\\')
+    .replace(/"/g, '\\"');
+
+  return '"' + escaped + '"';
+}
+
 // convert a JS array to a postgres array literal
 // uses comma separator so won't work for types like box that use
 // a different array separator.
@@ -25,7 +33,7 @@ function arrayString(val) {
     }
     else
     {
-      result = result + JSON.stringify(prepareValue(val[i]));
+      result += escapeElement(prepareValue(val[i]));
     }
   }
   result = result + '}';
@@ -104,15 +112,15 @@ function dateToString(date) {
 }
 
 function dateToStringUTC(date) {
-  
+
   var ret = pad(date.getUTCFullYear(), 4) + '-' +
       pad(date.getUTCMonth() + 1, 2) + '-' +
       pad(date.getUTCDate(), 2) + 'T' +
       pad(date.getUTCHours(), 2) + ':' +
       pad(date.getUTCMinutes(), 2) + ':' +
       pad(date.getUTCSeconds(), 2) + '.' +
       pad(date.getUTCMilliseconds(), 3);
-  
+
   return ret + "+00:00";
 }
 

test/integration/client/array-tests.js

@@ -1,6 +1,36 @@
 var helper = require(__dirname + "/test-helper");
 var pg = helper.pg;
 
+test('serializing arrays', function() {
+  pg.connect(helper.config, assert.calls(function(err, client, done) {
+    assert.isNull(err);
+
+    test('nulls', function() {
+      client.query('SELECT $1::text[] as array', [[null]], assert.success(function(result) {
+        var array = result.rows[0].array;
+        assert.lengthIs(array, 1);
+        assert.isNull(array[0]);
+      }));
+    });
+
+    test('elements containing JSON-escaped characters', function() {
+      var param = '\\"\\"';
+
+      for (var i = 1; i <= 0x1f; i++) {
+        param += String.fromCharCode(i);
+      }
+
+      client.query('SELECT $1::text[] as array', [[param]], assert.success(function(result) {
+        var array = result.rows[0].array;
+        assert.lengthIs(array, 1);
+        assert.equal(array[0], param);
+      }));
+
+      done();
+    });
+  }));
+});
+
 test('parsing array results', function() {
   pg.connect(helper.config, assert.calls(function(err, client, done) {
     assert.isNull(err);