Adding in a jQuery.type(obj) method (a simple map to using Object.prototype.toString...

diff --git a/src/core.js b/src/core.js
index 7fa20d4958b22a7ea37b0aa205611128ed157bed..5a005556239c376990be52733e617154f71b01c6 100644 (file)
--- a/src/core.js
+++ b/src/core.js
@@ -438,18 +438,22 @@ jQuery.extend({
        // Since version 1.3, DOM methods and functions like alert
        // aren't supported. They return false on IE (#2968).
        isFunction: function( obj ) {
-               return toString.call(obj) === "[object Function]";
+               return jQuery.type(obj) === "function";
        },
 
        isArray: function( obj ) {
-               return toString.call(obj) === "[object Array]";
+               return jQuery.type(obj) === "array";
+       },
+
+       type: function( obj ) {
+               return toString.call(obj).slice(8, -1).toLowerCase();
        },
 
        isPlainObject: function( obj ) {
                // Must be an Object.
                // Because of IE, we also have to check the presence of the constructor property.
                // Make sure that DOM nodes and window objects don't pass through, as well
-               if ( !obj || toString.call(obj) !== "[object Object]" || obj.nodeType || obj.setInterval ) {
+               if ( !obj || jQuery.type(obj) !== "object" || obj.nodeType || obj.setInterval ) {
                        return false;
                }
                
@@ -595,9 +599,9 @@ jQuery.extend({
                        // The extra typeof function check is to prevent crashes
                        // in Safari 2 (See: #3039)
                        // Tweaked logic slightly to handle Blackberry 4.7 RegExp issues #6930
-                       var type = toString.call(array);
+                       var type = jQuery.type(array);
 
-                       if ( array.length == null || type === "[object String]" || type === "[object Function]" || type === "[object RegExp]" || (typeof type !== "function" && array.setInterval) ) {
+                       if ( array.length == null || type === "string" || type === "function" || type === "regexp" || (typeof type !== "function" && array.setInterval) ) {
                                push.call( ret, array );
                        } else {
                                jQuery.merge( ret, array );