From b625e9f12fe891e0fe85e4ba6aea7348de998fc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: crschmidt <crschmidt@crschmidt.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:44:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix for "BaseTypes.String.Format does not support
 sub-elements", patch + tests from rdewit, r=me, (Closes #1956)

git-svn-id: http://svn.openlayers.org/trunk/openlayers@8900 dc9f47b5-9b13-0410-9fdd-eb0c1a62fdaf
---
 lib/OpenLayers/BaseTypes.js | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 tests/BaseTypes.html        | 19 +++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/OpenLayers/BaseTypes.js b/lib/OpenLayers/BaseTypes.js
index 9660d00e0f..0b09c91054 100644
--- a/lib/OpenLayers/BaseTypes.js
+++ b/lib/OpenLayers/BaseTypes.js
@@ -116,25 +116,52 @@ OpenLayers.String = {
         if(!context) {
             context = window;
         }
-        var tokens = template.split("${");
-        var item, last, replacement;
-        for(var i=1, len=tokens.length; i<len; i++) {
-            item = tokens[i];
-            last = item.indexOf("}"); 
-            if(last > 0) {
-                replacement = context[item.substring(0, last)];
-                if(typeof replacement == "function") {
-                    replacement = args ?
-                        replacement.apply(null, args) :
-                        replacement();
+
+        // Example matching: 
+        // str   = ${foo.bar}
+        // match = foo.bar
+        var replacer = function(str, match) {
+            var replacement;
+
+            // Loop through all subs. Example: ${a.b.c}
+            // 0 -> replacement = context[a];
+            // 1 -> replacement = context[a][b];
+            // 2 -> replacement = context[a][b][c];
+            var subs = match.split(/\.+/);
+            for (var i=0; i< subs.length; i++) {
+                if (i == 0) {
+                    replacement = context;
                 }
-                tokens[i] = replacement + item.substring(++last); 
-            } else {
-                tokens[i] = "${" + item;
+
+                replacement = replacement[subs[i]];
             }
-        }
-        return tokens.join("");
+
+            if(typeof replacement == "function") {
+                replacement = args ?
+                    replacement.apply(null, args) :
+                    replacement();
+            }
+
+            // If replacement is undefined, return the string 'undefined'.
+            // This is a workaround for a bugs in browsers not properly 
+            // dealing with non-participating groups in regular expressions:
+            // http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/npcg-javascript
+            if (typeof replacement == 'undefined') {
+                return 'undefined';
+            } else {
+                return replacement; 
+            }
+        };
+
+        return template.replace(OpenLayers.String.tokenRegEx, replacer);
     },
+
+    /**
+     * Property: OpenLayers.String.tokenRegEx
+     * Used to find tokens in a string.
+     * Examples: ${a}, ${a.b.c}, ${a-b}, ${5}
+     */
+    tokenRegEx:  /\${([\w.]+?)}/g,
     
     /**
      * Property: OpenLayers.String.numberRegEx
diff --git a/tests/BaseTypes.html b/tests/BaseTypes.html
index 5d6e8e2c92..7d30ea26d3 100644
--- a/tests/BaseTypes.html
+++ b/tests/BaseTypes.html
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
             "", "${ ", "${", " ${", "${${", "${}", "${${}}", " ${ ${",
             "}", "${${} }"
         ]
-        t.plan(6 + unchanged.length);
+        t.plan(7 + unchanged.length);
 
         var format = OpenLayers.String.format;
         
@@ -140,6 +140,23 @@
             "still works if arguments are not supplied"
         );
 
+        // test contexts where attribute values can be objects
+        var context = {
+            a: {
+                b: {
+                    c: 'd',
+                    e: function() {
+                        return 'f';
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        };
+        t.eq(
+            format("${a.b.c} ${a.b.e} ${a.b.q} ${a} ${a...b...c}", context),
+            "d f undefined [object Object] d",
+            "attribute values that are objects are supported"
+        );
+
     }
 
     function test_String_isNumeric(t) {