Problems with numeric nested form element names

[lucaswxp]

Heys guys!

I have a form that looks more or less like this:

<input type="checkbox" name="checklist[1]" value="1" />
<input type="checkbox" name="checklist[2]" value="1" />
<input type="checkbox" name="checklist[3]" value="1" />

I was expecting that request.body.checklist looked like this (after all checkboxes were checked, of course):

{
'1': '1',
'2': '1',
'3': '1'
}

But what I got was a array, without the indexes I need to associate the result:

['1', '1', '1']

This seems like a bug to me. I would expect the array only for zero-based indexes.

[jonathanong]

belongs here: https://github.com/hapijs/qs

[dougwilson]

another option is to just not use extended at all, because it's dumb :) also, in raw HTML itself, if all your checkboxes are related, you're supposed to just name them all the same thing: 'checklist'. they come through in the order they are in the DOM. extended: false would then parse it as ['1', '1', '1'], where they are the order in the DOM.