syncing array in group.now, it turns into an object

[Hugh Anderson]

I am initializing an empty array in the nowjs.on('newgroup') event, so that each group created gets an empty userList array.

Immediately after I initialize it, I console.log it, and it is not an Array, but an Object.

I am unable to use it like an array, it makes entries like {'0': { memberName: 'test'}} instead of an array like [{memberName: 'test'}].

Is this a bug in nowjs?  Using the most recent version, 0.8.1

nowjs.on('newgroup', function (group) {

   console.log('Nowjs group created: ' + group.groupName);

   group.now.userList = [];

// i have also tried group.now.userList = new Array() here, same issue

   console.log('userList=' + Util.inspectObject(group.now.userList));

// this prints userList={} (brackets, not braces) 

   group.on('leave', function () {

       console.log('userList=' + Util.inspectObject(group.now.userList));

       var currentClientId = this.user.clientId;

       removeClient(group, currentClientId);

// this tries to do group.now.userList.splice to take a member out of the array, but it can't use group.now.userList like an array

       group.now.eventServerToClient('group.removeMember', null, currentClientId);

   });

   group.on('join', function () {

       console.log('userList=' + Util.inspectObject(group.now.userList));

       var currentClientId = this.user.clientId;

       var newUser = addClient(group, currentClientId, this.now.memberName);

// this tries to do group.now.userList.push to add a member to the array, but it can't use group.now.userList like an array 

       group.now.eventServerToClient('group.addMember', newUser, currentClientId);

   });

});

[Hugh Anderson]

My server nowjs version is 0.7.0.  That seems to be the latest available to me, as a Windows user.  I installed using the instructions here:

http://blog.nowjs.com/running-nowjs-natively-on-windows

The file served by my localhost:99/nowjs/now.js reports it is version 0.8.1 in the comments inside it, but it was served by my 0.7.0 nowjs Windows branch clone.

Thanks to anybody who can help.

Here is a simplified version of the code that demonstrates the problem.

var Util = require('util');

function inspectObject (obj) {

    return Util.inspect(obj, true, 7, true);

};

nowjs.on('newgroup', function (group) {

   console.log('Nowjs group created: ' + group.groupName);

   group.now.userList = [];

   console.log('userList=' + inspectObject(group.now.userList));

   group.now.userList.push({ memberName: 'test' });

   console.log('userList=' + inspectObject(group.now.userList));

});

nowjs.getGroup('testGroup');