From 284658e3c9c05e08d3a06464c96f78728b44cc92 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Allan Jardine <allan.jardine@sprymedia.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 09:43:47 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix: When setting deeply nested object properties, where the
 parent object doesn't yet exist, don't just silently fail. Since we are
 setting a value, we are at liberty to create the parent object and then set
 the value - this now does so.

---
 media/js/jquery.dataTables.js | 8 +++++---
 media/src/core/core.data.js   | 8 +++++---
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/media/js/jquery.dataTables.js b/media/js/jquery.dataTables.js
index f7a97b2b..86b31eaf 100644
--- a/media/js/jquery.dataTables.js
+++ b/media/js/jquery.dataTables.js
@@ -865,11 +865,13 @@
 				return function (data, val) {
 					for ( var i=0, iLen=a.length-1 ; i<iLen ; i++ )
 					{
-						data = data[ a[i] ];
-						if ( data === undefined )
+						// If the nested object doesn't currently exist - since we are
+						// trying to set the value - create it
+						if ( data[ a[i] ] === undefined )
 						{
-							return;
+							data[ a[i] ] = {};
 						}
+						data = data[ a[i] ];
 					}
 					data[ a[a.length-1] ] = val;
 				};
diff --git a/media/src/core/core.data.js b/media/src/core/core.data.js
index 65211683..64529dbb 100644
--- a/media/src/core/core.data.js
+++ b/media/src/core/core.data.js
@@ -440,11 +440,13 @@ function _fnSetObjectDataFn( mSource )
 		return function (data, val) {
 			for ( var i=0, iLen=a.length-1 ; i<iLen ; i++ )
 			{
-				data = data[ a[i] ];
-				if ( data === undefined )
+				// If the nested object doesn't currently exist - since we are
+				// trying to set the value - create it
+				if ( data[ a[i] ] === undefined )
 				{
-					return;
+					data[ a[i] ] = {};
 				}
+				data = data[ a[i] ];
 			}
 			data[ a[a.length-1] ] = val;
 		};