Make it possible to disallow passing an array to validate()

[fixmaker]

We use mdg:validated-method in our Meteor project. The recommended way is to use SimpleSchema to validate the (single) argument that is sent from the client.

For example:

const method = new ValidatedMethod({
  name: 'myMethod',

  validate: new SimpleSchema({
    arg1: String,
    arg2: String,
  }).validator(),

  run({ arg1, arg2 }) {
     // Do something with arg1 and arg2
  }
});

// Method call
Meteor.call('myMethod', { arg1, arg2 });

The problem is that if the client code is (mistakenly) written like:

Meteor.call('myMethod, [ { arg1, arg2 } ]); // <--- Note the array enclosing the argument

...then the schema will treat the (array) argument as valid, but since the method body is expecting an object as its argument, rather than an array, so arg1 and arg2 will be destructored as undefined.

This is because SimpleSchema provides the 'convenience' of being able to pass either a single object or an array of objects to validate(). This problem could be avoided by having the option to turn off this 'convenience' feature but no such option seems to exist at the moment.

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