Fix handling the same key at multiple depths with API resource expansion.
Review Request #11667 — Created June 21, 2021 and submitted
API resource expansion, using
?expand=, could end up matching keys at
the wrong level of depth when serializing trees of objects. If there's a
resource hierarchy that looks like:A |- B | |-C |- Cand
expand=B,C, withA.Bserialized beforeA.C, then we'd end up
withA.B.Cexpanded but not necessarilyA.C.This is because we were keeping a record of keys we could expand at each
new depth, removing any we were handling from the list, and if we ended
up recursing into a child resource that had the same key as a resource
we intended to expand on a parent resource, we'd skip the second
occurrence on the parent.This only happened if
BandCwere listed infields, rather than
item_child_resources.This manifested in Review Board as an inability to expand
target_groupson areview_request_draftif we were also expanding
depends_on. Thetarget_groupsindepends_onwould be matched
first, and we'd then skip the intendedtarget_groups.There were two causes for this:
We defaulted the list of expanded resource keys usable for child
resources to be the same exact list of expanded resources for the
current object being serializes, which meant any time we removed one
from the child-specific list, we also removed it for the current
object's list.Manipulating this list during field iteration meant that we could end
up serializing a child with an incorrect list of eligible expanded
fields.The fix for this is to build the list of viable expansion fields for
child resources up-front. We start off with a copy of the list made in
the request, and then we remove anything we could possibly expand from
the object being serialized. This is done before we begin serializing
any object contents, guaranteeing we have a correct list at all times.
Unit tests pass on Python 2 and 3.
Reproduced the issue in Review Board where a
depends_onwould prevent
target_groupsfrom being expanded correctly. Verified this was fixed
with this change.
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