Merge pull request #39 from der-On/master

various fixes to postgres adapter

lib/datatypes.js

@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ datatypes = {
  // Sure, Arrays are technically Objects, but we're treating Array as a
  // separate datatype. Remember, instanceof Array fails across window
  // boundaries, so let's also make sure the Object isn't Array-ish
- if (typeof val != 'object' || _isArray(val)) {
+ if (typeof val != 'object'/* || _isArray(val)*/) { // by der_On: allow saving of arrays as the datatype array only saves arrays of numbers or strings correctly, but not arrays of objects
  return {
  err: i18n.getText('model.validatesObject', {name: name}, locale)
  , val: null
@@ -210,8 +210,17 @@ datatypes = {
  , serialize: function (input, options) {
  var val
  , opts = options || {};
- if (typeof input.toString == 'function') {
+
+ // Arrays will be converted to JSON
+ if (_isArray(input)) {
+ val = JSON.stringify(input);
+ } else if (typeof input.toString == 'function') {
  val = input.toString();
+
+ // if this happens the object had no usefull toString() method and we should make JSON out of it
+ if (val == "[object Object]") {
+ val = JSON.stringify(input);
+ }
  }
  else {
  val = JSON.stringify(input);

lib/generators/sql.js

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 var model = require('../index')
  , utils = require('utilities')
  , generator
@@ -13,6 +12,8 @@ datatypeMap = {
 , 'date': 'date'
 , 'datetime': 'timestamp'
 , 'time': 'time'
+, 'object': 'text'
+, 'array': 'text'
 };
 
 generator = new (function () {