fix: ensure consistent parsing of dot-notation arguments (yargs#102)

index.js

@@ -574,9 +574,24 @@ function parse (args, opts) {
 
     if (!configuration['dot-notation']) keys = [keys.join('.')]
 
-    keys.slice(0, -1).forEach(function (key) {
-      if (o[key] === undefined) o[key] = {}
-      o = o[key]
+    keys.slice(0, -1).forEach(function (key, index) {
+      if (typeof o === 'object' && o[key] === undefined) {
+        o[key] = {}
+      }
+
+      if (typeof o[key] !== 'object' || Array.isArray(o[key])) {
+        // ensure that o[key] is an array, and that the last item is an empty object.
+        if (Array.isArray(o[key])) {
+          o[key].push({})
+        } else {
+          o[key] = [o[key], {}]
+        }
+
+        // we want to update the empty object at the end of the o[key] array, so set o to that object
+        o = o[key][o[key].length - 1]
+      } else {
+        o = o[key]
+      }
     })
 
     var key = keys[keys.length - 1]

test/yargs-parser.js

@@ -2485,4 +2485,31 @@ describe('yargs-parser', function () {
     })
     argv.foo.should.equal(9.39404959509494e+22)
   })
+
+  // see: https://github.com/yargs/yargs-parser/issues/101
+  describe('dot-notation array arguments combined with string arguments', function () {
+    it('parses correctly when dot-notation argument is first', function () {
+      var argv = parser([ '--foo.bar', 'baz', '--foo', 'bux' ])
+      Array.isArray(argv.foo).should.equal(true)
+      argv.foo[0].bar.should.equal('baz')
+      argv.foo[1].should.equal('bux')
+    })
+
+    it('parses correctly when dot-notation argument is last', function () {
+      var argv = parser([ '--foo', 'bux', '--foo.bar', 'baz' ])
+      Array.isArray(argv.foo).should.equal(true)
+      argv.foo[0].should.equal('bux')
+      argv.foo[1].bar.should.equal('baz')
+    })
+
+    it('parses correctly when there are multiple dot-notation arguments', function () {
+      var argv = parser([ '--foo.first', 'firstvalue', '--foo', 'bux', '--foo.bar', 'baz', '--foo.bla', 'banana' ])
+      Array.isArray(argv.foo).should.equal(true)
+      argv.foo.length.should.equal(4)
+      argv.foo[0].first.should.equal('firstvalue')
+      argv.foo[1].should.equal('bux')
+      argv.foo[2].bar.should.equal('baz')
+      argv.foo[3].bla.should.equal('banana')
+    })
+  })
 })