tastypie/node_modules/mout/lang/toArray.js

Tastypie is a webservice API framework for Node.js based on Django's Tastypie Framework. It provides a convenient, yet powerful and highly customizable, abstraction for creating REST-style interfaces

var kindOf = require('./kindOf');
var GLOBAL = require('./GLOBAL');

    /**
     * Convert array-like object into array
     */
    function toArray(val){
        var ret = [],
            kind = kindOf(val),
            n;

        if (val != null) {
            if ( val.length == null || kind === 'String' || kind === 'Function' || kind === 'RegExp' || val === GLOBAL ) {
                //string, regexp, function have .length but user probably just want
                //to wrap value into an array..
                ret[ret.length] = val;
            } else {
                //window returns true on isObject in IE7 and may have length
                //property. `typeof NodeList` returns `function` on Safari so
                //we can't use it (#58)
                n = val.length;
                while (n--) {
                    ret[n] = val[n];
                }
            }
        }
        return ret;
    }
    module.exports = toArray;