From 41198ad3ad1925b2b88df9b16638c36dee43500f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Kemper <jeremy@bitsweat.net>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:10:58 +0000
Subject: Fix parsing of array[] CGI parameters so extra empty values aren't
 included. Closes #6252.

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@5904 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de
---
 actionpack/CHANGELOG                                    |  2 ++
 actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb | 13 +++++++------
 actionpack/test/controller/cgi_test.rb                  | 12 ++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/actionpack/CHANGELOG b/actionpack/CHANGELOG
index bc1dd897e1..29456bf301 100644
--- a/actionpack/CHANGELOG
+++ b/actionpack/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 *SVN*
 
+* Fix parsing of array[] CGI parameters so extra empty values aren't included.  #6252 [Nicholas Seckar, aiwilliams, brentrowland]
+
 * link_to_unless_current works with full URLs as well as paths.  #6891 [Jarkko Laine, manfred, idrifter]
 
 * Lookup the mime type for #auto_discovery_link_tag in the Mime::Type class.  Closes #6941 [Josh Peek]
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb
index 329a11969a..437a340b25 100755
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/cgi_ext/cgi_methods.rb
@@ -23,18 +23,19 @@ class CGIMethods #:nodoc:
     def parse_request_parameters(params)
       parser = FormEncodedPairParser.new
 
-      finished = false
-      until finished
-        finished = true
+      params = params.dup
+      until params.empty?
         for key, value in params
-          next if key.blank?
-          if !key.include?('[')
+          if key.blank?
+            params.delete key
+          elsif !key.include?('[')
             # much faster to test for the most common case first (GET)
             # and avoid the call to build_deep_hash
             parser.result[key] = get_typed_value(value[0])
+            params.delete key
           elsif value.is_a?(Array)
             parser.parse(key, get_typed_value(value.shift))
-            finished = false unless value.empty?
+            params.delete key if value.empty?
           else
             raise TypeError, "Expected array, found #{value.inspect}"
           end
diff --git a/actionpack/test/controller/cgi_test.rb b/actionpack/test/controller/cgi_test.rb
index 1d2888ad89..e7d44802a5 100755
--- a/actionpack/test/controller/cgi_test.rb
+++ b/actionpack/test/controller/cgi_test.rb
@@ -425,4 +425,16 @@ class CGIRequestTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert_equal ["c84ace84796670c052c6ceb2451fb0f2"], alt_cookies["_session_id"]
     assert_equal ["yes"], alt_cookies["is_admin"]
   end
+  
+  def test_unbalanced_query_string_with_array
+   assert_equal(
+     {'location' => ["1", "2"], 'age_group' => ["2"]},
+  CGIMethods.parse_query_parameters("location[]=1&location[]=2&age_group[]=2")
+   )
+   assert_equal(
+     {'location' => ["1", "2"], 'age_group' => ["2"]},
+     CGIMethods.parse_request_parameters({'location[]' => ["1", "2"],
+  'age_group[]' => ["2"]})
+   )
+  end
 end
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