Merge pull request #1199 from jharding/1163-val-undefined

Coerce val to string when set through API

Author: jharding

src/typeahead/plugin.js

@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
       }
 
       else {
-        ttEach(this, function(t) { t.setVal(newVal); });
+        ttEach(this, function(t) { t.setVal(_.toStr(newVal)); });
         return this;
       }
     },

test/typeahead/plugin_spec.js

@@ -157,6 +157,14 @@ describe('$plugin', function() {
     expect(this.$input.typeahead('val')).toBe('foo');
   });
 
+  it('#val(q) should coerce null and undefined to empty string', function() {
+    this.$input.typeahead('val', null);
+    expect(this.$input.typeahead('val')).toBe('');
+
+    this.$input.typeahead('val', undefined);
+    expect(this.$input.typeahead('val')).toBe('');
+  });
+
   it('#destroy should revert modified attributes', function() {
     expect(this.$input).toHaveAttr('autocomplete', 'off');
     expect(this.$input).toHaveAttr('dir');