Cannot read property 'name' of undefined

[franciscolourenco]

Node querystring.parse method returns an object with null prototype for security reasons.

Passing that object to serialize() throws Cannot read property 'name' of undefined.

Would it be possible to stop depending on the object's prototype in order to fix this issue?

Thanks!

Related:

• querystring: don't inherit from Object.prototype nodejs/node#6055

[philipp-tailor]

👍🏼 for this request.

Is the library still actively maintained?

[franciscolourenco]

https://nodejs.org/api/querystring.html#querystring_querystring_parse_str_sep_eq_options

[steelbrain]

Is the library still actively maintained?

Yes. The bug seems to be out of scope of the lib tho, you could just add an if/else statement in your own code to handle this

[franciscolourenco]

@steelbrain A common way to parse url-encoded-form data is to use the native node querystring.parse() function. Since this is a node library it would probably be a good idea to be compatible with node generally speaking.

Is there anything which prevents php-serialize form using a more fail-proof method of identifying objects, like for instance:

typeof object === 'object' && object !== null