From d8388d6bf002f5aabda5c411205079875bd77415 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: titanism <101466223+titanism@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 19:05:14 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] fix: prevent recursion with pushing keys

---
 README.md    | 2 +-
 src/index.js | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e2f643c..8795ecc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ Axe will automatically add the following metadata and information to the `meta`
 
 Axe will omit from metadata all properties via the default Array from `meta.omittedFields` option (see [Options](#options) below for more insight).
 
-If the argument "meta" is an empty object, then it will not be passed as an argument to logger methods \*ndash; because you don't want to see an empty `{}` polluting your log metadata. Axe keeps your log output tidy.
+If the argument "meta" is an empty object, then it will not be passed as an argument to logger methods – because you don't want to see an empty `{}` polluting your log metadata. Axe keeps your log output tidy.
 
 ```sh
 hello world {
diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index 3e86888..3e91fd6 100644
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -56,10 +56,10 @@ function dotifyToArray(obj) {
         : key;
       const newKey = current ? current + '.' + convertedKey : convertedKey; // joined key with dot
       // if (value && typeof value === 'object' && !(value instanceof Date) && !ObjectID.isValid(value)) {
-      if (isPlainObject(value)) {
+      if (isPlainObject(value) && res.indexOf(convertedKey) === -1) {
         res.push(convertedKey);
         recurse(value, newKey); // it's a nested object, so do it again
-      } else {
+      } else if (res.indexOf(newKey) === -1) {
         res.push(newKey);
       }
     }