Strange behaviour! If path don't start with '/'

[knde]

var obj = {firstName: "Albert"};
var patches = [{op: "add", path: "/lastName", value:"Wester"}];
jsonpatch.apply(obj,patches);
obj = {firstName: 'Albert' },lastName:'Wester' }
If path = "lastName"
The result
{ '0': 'W', '1': 'e', '2': 's', '3': 't', '4': 'e', '5': 'r' }

why?

[warpech]

Hi! This is because it is not a correct path and code is optimized for speed, not for validating patches.

To turn on validation, use true as the third parameter (jsonpatch.apply(obj, patches, true);)

Check out https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6901 for the spec of the path value.

[warpech]

Oops! Just noticed that such path does not raise an error with validation. Reopening this for fixing

[MarkHerhold]

@tomalec This can be closed now. Please do a patch release when you have time! Thanks! 👍

[tomalec]

Thanks @MarkHerhold for support :)
1.1.1 released.