fix(view): avoid wrapping array results#9745
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Return a sole array-valued JSON result directly instead of adding a second result wrapper. Preserve existing output shapes for scalar, object, and multiple returned results. Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com> Copilot-Session: 0891f659-c868-4bcb-b8df-c4ec5a368566
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npm 12.0.0 breaks downstream updaters by returning nested arrays for
npm view <pkg> versions --json.The bug
On npm 12.0.0, a single array-valued field is wrapped in the outer results array:
This happens in
lib/commands/view.js#packageOutput: for a single-field query it maps tores.map(m => m[first[0]]), and when that field's value is itself an array (e.g.versions), it gets double-wrapped.The fix
Return a sole array-valued JSON result directly instead of adding a second result wrapper. Existing output shapes are preserved:
["1.0.0"],[{...}])[[...],[...]])["1.0.0","1.0.1"])Docs and tests updated to cover flat array, nested array, object-wrapper, workspace, and multi-match cases.