From eafca7ca0b822d6554facdeed2fa720e195b719d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: R Landau <rflandau@pm.me>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 16:40:36 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] exploit json/encoding to wrap inbound data in
 map[string]interface{}

---
 gabs.go | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gabs.go b/gabs.go
index b846954..01fbaff 100644
--- a/gabs.go
+++ b/gabs.go
@@ -870,7 +870,11 @@ func New() *Container {
 // Wrap an already unmarshalled JSON object (or a new map[string]interface{})
 // into a *Container.
 func Wrap(root interface{}) *Container {
-	return &Container{root}
+	b, _ := json.Marshal(root)
+	var m map[string]interface{}
+	json.Unmarshal(b, &m)
+
+	return &Container{m}
 }
 
 // ParseJSON unmarshals a JSON byte slice into a *Container.

From 1acefbd2e781f63c81f2c1c94f4cac4a68370020 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: R Landau <rflandau@pm.me>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 16:40:54 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] simple tests for Wrap == New

---
 gabs_test.go | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 44 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gabs_test.go b/gabs_test.go
index f8429e5..2badfb5 100644
--- a/gabs_test.go
+++ b/gabs_test.go
@@ -1915,6 +1915,50 @@ func TestFlattenIncludeEmpty(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestWrapAgainstNew(t *testing.T) {
+	exp := New()
+
+	exp.Set(1, "A")
+	exp.SetP(2, "B")
+	exp.SetP("3", "Alpha.Beta")
+	exp.SetP(3.14, "Alpha.Gamma")
+
+	if err := exp.Delete("B"); err != nil {
+		t.Error(err)
+	}
+	if err := exp.DeleteP("Alpha.Beta"); err != nil {
+		t.Error(err)
+	}
+
+	type toWrap struct {
+		A     int
+		B     int
+		Alpha struct {
+			Beta  string
+			Gamma *float64
+		}
+	}
+
+	gamma := 3.14
+
+	act := Wrap(toWrap{A: 1, B: 2, Alpha: struct {
+		Beta  string
+		Gamma *float64
+	}{Beta: "3", Gamma: &gamma}})
+
+	if err := act.Delete("B"); err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+	if err := act.DeleteP("Alpha.Beta"); err != nil {
+		t.Error(err)
+	}
+
+	if exp.String() != act.String() {
+		t.Errorf("Wrong result: %v != %v", act, exp)
+	}
+
+}
+
 func BenchmarkChildren(b *testing.B) {
 	b.ReportAllocs()
 	for i := 0; i < b.N; i++ {