Type-checking projection function

lib/indexes.js

@@ -11,6 +11,19 @@ function checkValueEquality (a, b) {
   return a === b;
 }
 
+/**
+ * Type-aware projection
+ */
+function projectForUnique (elt) {
+  if (elt === null) { return '$null'; }
+  if (typeof elt === 'string') { return '$string' + elt; }
+  if (typeof elt === 'boolean') { return '$boolean' + elt; }
+  if (typeof elt === 'number') { return '$number' + elt; }
+  if (util.isArray(elt)) { return '$date' + elt.getTime(); }
+  
+  return elt;   // Arrays and objects, will check for pointer equality
+}
+
 
 /**
  * Create a new index
@@ -61,7 +74,7 @@ Index.prototype.insert = function (doc) {
   if (!util.isArray(key)) {
     this.tree.insert(key, doc);
   } else {
-    _.uniq(key, model.areThingsEqual).forEach(function (_key) {
+    _.uniq(key, projectForUnique).forEach(function (_key) {
       self.tree.insert(_key, doc);
     });
   }

test/indexes.test.js

@@ -137,6 +137,18 @@ describe('Indexes', function () {
       idx.insert(obj2);
       idx.getAll().length.should.equal(3);
 	  });
+
+	  it('Inserts one entry per array element in the index, type-checked', function () {
+      var obj = { tf: ['42', 42, new Date(42), 42], really: 'yeah' }
+        , idx = new Index({ fieldName: 'tf' })
+        ;
+      
+      idx.insert(obj);
+      idx.getAll().length.should.equal(3);
+      idx.getAll()[0].should.equal(obj);
+      idx.getAll()[1].should.equal(obj);
+      idx.getAll()[2].should.equal(obj);
+	  });
     
 	  it('Inserts one entry per unique array element in the index, the unique constraint only holds across documents', function () {
       var obj = { tf: ['aa', 'aa'], really: 'yeah' }