Landing pull request 512. 1.7 - removeData now takes space separated …

…lists and arrays of keys - Fixes #7323.

More Details:
 - #512
 - http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/7323

src/data.js

@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ jQuery.extend({
 			return;
 		}
 
-		var thisCache,
+		var thisCache, i, l,
 
 			// Reference to internal data cache key
 			internalKey = jQuery.expando,
@@ -158,12 +158,25 @@ jQuery.extend({
 
 			if ( thisCache ) {
 
-				// Support interoperable removal of hyphenated or camelcased keys
-				if ( !thisCache[ name ] ) {
+				// Support space separated names
+				if ( jQuery.isArray( name ) ) {
+					name = name;
+				} else if ( name in thisCache ) {
+					name = [ name ];
+				} else {
+
+					// split the camel cased version by spaces
 					name = jQuery.camelCase( name );
+					if ( name in thisCache ) {
+						name = [ name ];
+					} else {
+						name = name.split( " " );
+					}
 				}
 
-				delete thisCache[ name ];
+				for ( i = 0, l = name.length; i < l; i++ ) {
+					delete thisCache[ name[i] ];
+				}
 
 				// If there is no data left in the cache, we want to continue
 				// and let the cache object itself get destroyed

src/event.js

@@ -238,20 +238,18 @@ jQuery.event = {
 
 				delete events[ type ];
 			}
+		}
 
-			// Remove the expando if it's no longer used
-			if ( jQuery.isEmptyObject( events ) ) {
-				handle = elemData.handle;
-				if ( handle ) {
-					handle.elem = null;
-				}
-
-				delete elemData.events;
-
-				// removeData also checks for emptiness and clears the expando if empty
-				// so use it instead of delete for this last property we touch here
-				jQuery.removeData( elem, "handle", true );
+		// Remove the expando if it's no longer used
+		if ( jQuery.isEmptyObject( events ) ) {
+			handle = elemData.handle;
+			if ( handle ) {
+				handle.elem = null;
 			}
+
+			// removeData also checks for emptiness and clears the expando if empty
+			// so use it instead of delete
+			jQuery.removeData( elem, [ "events", "handle" ], true );
 		}
 	},
 

test/unit/data.js

@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@ test(".data(Object)", function() {
 });
 
 test("jQuery.removeData", function() {
-	expect(6);
+	expect(10);
 	var div = jQuery("#foo")[0];
 	jQuery.data(div, "test", "testing");
 	jQuery.removeData(div, "test");
@@ -445,6 +445,28 @@ test("jQuery.removeData", function() {
 	ok( !jQuery.data(div, "test2"), "Make sure that the data property no longer exists." );
 	ok( !div[ jQuery.expando ], "Make sure the expando no longer exists, as well." );
 
+	jQuery.data(div, {
+		test3: "testing",
+		test4: "testing"
+	});
+	jQuery.removeData( div, "test3 test4" );
+	ok( !jQuery.data(div, "test3") || jQuery.data(div, "test4"), "Multiple delete with spaces." );
+
+	jQuery.data(div, {
+		test3: "testing",
+		test4: "testing"
+	});
+	jQuery.removeData( div, [ "test3", "test4" ] );
+	ok( !jQuery.data(div, "test3") || jQuery.data(div, "test4"), "Multiple delete by array." );
+
+	jQuery.data(div, {
+		"test3 test4": "testing",
+		test3: "testing"
+	});
+	jQuery.removeData( div, "test3 test4" );
+	ok( !jQuery.data(div, "test3 test4"), "Multiple delete with spaces deleted key with exact name" );
+	ok( jQuery.data(div, "test3"), "Left the partial matched key alone" );
+
 	var obj = {};
 	jQuery.data(obj, "test", "testing");
 	equals( jQuery(obj).data("test"), "testing", "verify data on plain object");