Html entities are decoded in array but not in string

[feliperuiz]

I just stumbled upon this issue and I honestly couldn't understand why this happens. Let's say you have a template like

<ul>{~n}
{#section}
    <li>{name}</li>{~n}
{/section}
</ul>

and the data to render is

{
    "section" : [
        {
            "name" : "Test & more test"
        },
        {
            "name" : ["Another test & testing stuff"]
        }
    ]
}

If we render it like so, the first li will have the value Test & more test, but the second one will render Another test & testing stuff. Why do the two behave differently? In my head they should behave the same way, but I can't for the life of me find what causes that difference.

You can see it in action in this fiddle.

[jimmyhchan]

the first name does htmlEncoding on htmlEntities so you get double encoding
the second name is doing a toString on the array and using that.

as another example:

{
    "section" : [
        {
            "name" : "Test & more test"
        },
        {
            "name" : {}
        }
    ]
}

will return the second name as [object object] because you are pointing directly to an object.

It just so happens that toString on an array gives you the concatenated values in the array. Which might be expected as much as [object object] is expected.

[feliperuiz]

Shouldn't it escape the result of the toString call then, so they have the same behaviour?