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-rw-r--r--src/nvim/msgpack_rpc/helpers.c7
-rw-r--r--test/functional/api/server_requests_spec.lua20
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/src/nvim/msgpack_rpc/helpers.c b/src/nvim/msgpack_rpc/helpers.c
index a119c4653a..5ef81721d4 100644
--- a/src/nvim/msgpack_rpc/helpers.c
+++ b/src/nvim/msgpack_rpc/helpers.c
@@ -94,10 +94,9 @@ bool msgpack_rpc_to_string(msgpack_object *obj, String *arg)
FUNC_ATTR_NONNULL_ALL
{
if (obj->type == MSGPACK_OBJECT_BIN || obj->type == MSGPACK_OBJECT_STR) {
- if (obj->via.bin.ptr == NULL) {
- return false;
- }
- arg->data = xmemdupz(obj->via.bin.ptr, obj->via.bin.size);
+ arg->data = obj->via.bin.ptr != NULL
+ ? xmemdupz(obj->via.bin.ptr, obj->via.bin.size)
+ : NULL;
arg->size = obj->via.bin.size;
return true;
}
diff --git a/test/functional/api/server_requests_spec.lua b/test/functional/api/server_requests_spec.lua
index a3ac864f79..16a4423535 100644
--- a/test/functional/api/server_requests_spec.lua
+++ b/test/functional/api/server_requests_spec.lua
@@ -32,6 +32,26 @@ describe('server -> client', function()
end)
end)
+ describe('empty string handling in arrays', function()
+ -- Because the msgpack encoding for an empty string was interpreted as an
+ -- error, msgpack arrays with an empty string looked like
+ -- [..., '', 0, ..., 0] after the conversion, regardless of the array
+ -- elements following the empty string.
+ it('works', function()
+ local function on_setup()
+ eq({1, 2, '', 3, 'asdf'}, eval('rpcrequest('..cid..', "nstring")'))
+ stop()
+ end
+
+ local function on_request(method, args)
+ -- No need to evaluate the args, we are only interested in
+ -- a response that contains an array with an empty string.
+ return {1, 2, '', 3, 'asdf'}
+ end
+ run(on_request, nil, on_setup)
+ end)
+ end)
+
describe('recursive call', function()
it('works', function()
local function on_setup()