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incorrect optional arguments signature validation #776

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@mikhail-barg

I have been updating my C# jsonata port to pass latest signature tests when I stumbled upon something that looks like an unexpwected behaviour to me:

jsonata/src/signature.js

Lines 230 to 254 in 597e5ee

params.forEach(function (param, index) {
var arg = args[argIndex];
var match = isValid[index + 1];
if (match === '') {
if (param.context && param.contextRegex) {
// substitute context value for missing arg
// first check that the context value is the right type
var contextType = getSymbol(context);
// test contextType against the regex for this arg (without the trailing ?)
if (param.contextRegex.test(contextType)) {
validatedArgs.push(context);
} else {
// context value not compatible with this argument
throw {
code: "T0411",
stack: (new Error()).stack,
value: context,
index: argIndex + 1
};
}
} else {
validatedArgs.push(arg);
argIndex++;
}
} else {

specifically, if there's an empty match for a param and param is not a context/contextRegex then the function would just silently validate current arg for the param.

This seem to be plainly wrong, and it would cause stuff like this:

λ($arg1, $arg2)<s?n?:o>{{"$arg1": $arg1, "$arg2": $arg2}}(2)

produces

{
  "$arg1": 2
}

instead of

{
  "$arg2": 2
}

https://try.jsonata.org/KS7syiOV_

And

λ($arg1, $arg2)<s?n?:o>{{"$arg1": $arg1, "$arg2": $arg2}}(1,2)

produces error (expected) with unexpected message: Argument 2 of function undefined does not match function signature — one would expect that it is argument 1 that does not match the signature.

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