rm deep_munge. You will live on in our hearts (and git history)

Now that we have encoding strategies, we can just walk the params hash
once to encode as HWIA, and remove nils.

actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/request.rb

@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ module ActionDispatch
 
     # Override Rack's GET method to support indifferent access
     def GET
-      @env["action_dispatch.request.query_parameters"] ||= Utils.deep_munge(normalize_encode_params(super || {}))
+      @env["action_dispatch.request.query_parameters"] ||= normalize_encode_params(super || {})
     rescue Rack::Utils::ParameterTypeError, Rack::Utils::InvalidParameterError => e
       raise ActionController::BadRequest.new(:query, e)
     end
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ module ActionDispatch
 
     # Override Rack's POST method to support indifferent access
     def POST
-      @env["action_dispatch.request.request_parameters"] ||= Utils.deep_munge(normalize_encode_params(super || {}))
+      @env["action_dispatch.request.request_parameters"] ||= normalize_encode_params(super || {})
     rescue Rack::Utils::ParameterTypeError, Rack::Utils::InvalidParameterError => e
       raise ActionController::BadRequest.new(:request, e)
     end
@@ -318,11 +318,6 @@ module ActionDispatch
       LOCALHOST =~ remote_addr && LOCALHOST =~ remote_ip
     end
 
-    protected
-      def parse_query(*)
-        Utils.deep_munge(super)
-      end
-
     private
       def check_method(name)
         HTTP_METHOD_LOOKUP[name] || raise(ActionController::UnknownHttpMethod, "#{name}, accepted HTTP methods are #{HTTP_METHODS[0...-1].join(', ')}, and #{HTTP_METHODS[-1]}")

actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/params_parser.rb

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ module ActionDispatch
       Mime::JSON => lambda { |raw_post|
         data = ActiveSupport::JSON.decode(raw_post)
         data = {:_json => data} unless data.is_a?(Hash)
-        Request::Utils.deep_munge(data).with_indifferent_access
+        Request::Utils.normalize_encode_params(data)
       }
     }
 

actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/request/utils.rb

@@ -6,10 +6,14 @@ module ActionDispatch
       self.perform_deep_munge = true
 
       def self.normalize_encode_params(params)
-        ParamEncoder.normalize_encode_params params
+        if perform_deep_munge
+          NoNilParamEncoder.normalize_encode_params params
+        else
+          ParamEncoder.normalize_encode_params params
+        end
       end
 
-      class ParamEncoder
+      class ParamEncoder # :nodoc:
         # Convert nested Hash to HashWithIndifferentAccess.
         #
         def self.normalize_encode_params(params)
@@ -34,22 +38,12 @@ module ActionDispatch
         end
       end
 
-      class << self
-        # Remove nils from the params hash
-        def deep_munge(hash)
-          return hash unless perform_deep_munge
-
-          hash.each do |k, v|
-            case v
-            when Array
-              v.grep(Hash) { |x| deep_munge(x) }
-              v.compact!
-            when Hash
-              deep_munge(v)
-            end
-          end
-
-          hash
+      # Remove nils from the params hash
+      class NoNilParamEncoder < ParamEncoder # :nodoc:
+        def self.handle_array(params)
+          list = super
+          list.compact!
+          list
         end
       end
     end