Drop the setter methods cache in favour of respond_to? (see #472) #473
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Rebased. I think this one is particularly important and it stands alone from my other remaining changes. |
The cache was not being updated when new attributes were added, causing very strange behaviour. Any previously unseen attributes passed to new with send_only_modified_attributes enabled would be missing from the request parameters. This is because change tracking is only effective for setter methods. Updating the cache turned out to be more expensive than not having a cache at all. Using respond_to? would be fastest but this breaks things as respond_to_missing? returns true for any assignment method. If method(:foo=).source_location returns nil then this may indicate that the method is missing but this is also true for methods in native code. A faster and more reliable approach is using a fiber-local variable to make respond_to_missing? return false while doing these checks. It's a tad ugly but it's the best I can come up with.
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I'm leaving the company soon and I'd like to get some (or all!) of these merged before I go. This one seems like a good start. |
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One week to go. 😛 |
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The cache was not being updated when new attributes were added, causing very strange behaviour. Any previously unseen attributes passed to new with
send_only_modified_attributesenabled would be missing from the request parameters. This is because change tracking is only effective for setter methods.Updating the cache turned out to be more expensive than not having a cache at all. Using
respond_to?would be fastest but this breaks things asrespond_to_missing?returns true for any assignment method.If
method(:foo=).source_locationreturns nil then this may indicate that the method is missing but this is also true for methods in native code.A faster and more reliable approach is using a fiber-local variable to make
respond_to_missing?return false while doing these checks. It's a tad ugly but it's the best I can come up with.