commit 26c918d03f5b38df900316c0601065ec1ea96264
parent 0887ad1cbb050d2bc6169ad46aa07cf42c90493f
Author: William Boman <william@redwill.se>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 02:27:23 +0100
fix(lua): always return nil values in vim.tbl_get when no results
While `return` and `return nil` are for most intents and purposes
identical, there are situations where they're not. For example,
calculating the amount of values via the `select()` function will yield
varying results:
```lua
local function nothing() return end
local function null() return nil end
select('#', nothing()) -- 0
select('#', null()) -- 1
```
`vim.tbl_get` currently returns both nil and no results, which makes it
unreliable to use in certain situations without manually accounting for
these discrepancies.
Diffstat:
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/runtime/lua/vim/shared.lua b/runtime/lua/vim/shared.lua
@@ -395,15 +395,14 @@ end
function vim.tbl_get(o, ...)
local keys = { ... }
if #keys == 0 then
- return
+ return nil
end
for i, k in ipairs(keys) do
- if type(o[k]) ~= 'table' and next(keys, i) then
- return nil
- end
o = o[k]
if o == nil then
- return
+ return nil
+ elseif type(o) ~= 'table' and next(keys, i) then
+ return nil
end
end
return o
diff --git a/test/functional/lua/vim_spec.lua b/test/functional/lua/vim_spec.lua
@@ -512,6 +512,8 @@ describe('lua stdlib', function()
eq(NIL, exec_lua("return vim.tbl_get({ unindexable = function () end }, 'unindexable', 'missing_key')"))
eq(NIL, exec_lua("return vim.tbl_get({}, 'missing_key')"))
eq(NIL, exec_lua("return vim.tbl_get({})"))
+ eq(1, exec_lua("return select('#', vim.tbl_get({}))"))
+ eq(1, exec_lua("return select('#', vim.tbl_get({ nested = {} }, 'nested', 'missing_key'))"))
end)
it('vim.tbl_extend', function()