don't crawl in nested objs of valType:'any' attrs

Author: etpinard

src/plot_api/validate.js

@@ -161,13 +161,14 @@ function crawl(objIn, objOut, schema, list, base, path) {
         var valOut = objOut[k];
 
         var nestedSchema = getNestedSchema(schema, k);
-        var isInfoArray = (nestedSchema || {}).valType === 'info_array';
-        var isColorscale = (nestedSchema || {}).valType === 'colorscale';
+        var nestedValType = (nestedSchema || {}).valType;
+        var isInfoArray = nestedValType === 'info_array';
+        var isColorscale = nestedValType === 'colorscale';
         var items = (nestedSchema || {}).items;
 
         if(!isInSchema(schema, k)) {
             list.push(format('schema', base, p));
-        } else if(isPlainObject(valIn) && isPlainObject(valOut)) {
+        } else if(isPlainObject(valIn) && isPlainObject(valOut) && nestedValType !== 'any') {
             crawl(valIn, valOut, nestedSchema, list, base, p);
         } else if(isInfoArray && isArray(valIn)) {
             if(valIn.length > valOut.length) {

test/jasmine/tests/validate_test.js

@@ -640,4 +640,27 @@ describe('Plotly.validate', function() {
         }]);
         expect(out).toBeUndefined();
     });
+
+    it('should not attempt to crawl into nested objects of valType: \'any\' attributes', function() {
+        var out = Plotly.validate([{
+            mode: 'markers',
+            x: ['a', 'b', 'c', 'a', 'b', 'c'],
+            y: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6],
+            transforms: [{
+                type: 'groupby',
+                groups: ['a', 'b', 'c'],
+                styles: [{
+                    target: 'a',
+                    value: {marker: {color: 'blue'}}
+                }, {
+                    target: 'b',
+                    value: {marker: {color: 'red'}}
+                }, {
+                    target: 'c',
+                    value: {marker: {color: 'black'}}
+                }]
+            }]
+        }]);
+        expect(out).toBeUndefined();
+    });
 });