Event: Empty namespaces should be uneventfully ignored

dmethvin · dmethvin · commit 8653068dd6b8 · 2014-12-09T19:59:56.000-05:00
Thanks @hamishdickson for the report! Closes gh-1769
diff --git a/src/event.js b/src/event.js
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ var
 	rkeyEvent = /^key/,
 	rmouseEvent = /^(?:mouse|pointer|contextmenu)|click/,
 	rfocusMorph = /^(?:focusinfocus|focusoutblur)$/,
-	rtypenamespace = /^([^.]*)(?:\.(.+)|)$/;
+	rtypenamespace = /^([^.]*)(?:\.(.+)|)/;
 
 function returnTrue() {
 	return true;
diff --git a/test/unit/event.js b/test/unit/event.js
@@ -583,6 +583,17 @@ test("namespace-only event binding is a no-op", function(){
 		.off("whoops");
 });
 
+test("Empty namespace is ignored", function(){
+	expect( 1 );
+
+	jQuery("#firstp")
+		.on( "meow.", function( e ) {
+			equal( e.namespace, "", "triggered a namespace-less meow event" );
+		})
+		.trigger("meow.")
+		.off("meow.");
+});
+
 test("on(), with same function", function() {
 	expect(2);
 
