The `members` table can have entries where `user_id: nil`, because people can
invite group members by email. We never want to include those as members,
because it might cause confusion with the anonymous (logged out) user.
The method Ability.issues_readable_by_user takes a list of users and an
optional user and returns an Array of issues readable by said user. This
method in turn is used by
Banzai::ReferenceParser::IssueParser#nodes_visible_to_user so this
method no longer needs to get all the available abilities just to check
if a user has the "read_issue" ability.
To test this I benchmarked an issue with 222 comments on my development
environment. Using these changes the time spent in nodes_visible_to_user
was reduced from around 120 ms to around 40 ms.
NotesHelper#note_editable? and ProjectTeam#human_max_access currently
take about 16% of the load time of an issue page. This MR preloads
the maximum access level of users for all notes in issues and merge
requests with several queries instead of one per user and caches
the result in RequestStore.
There are several changes to this module:
1. The use of an explicit stack in Participable#participants
2. Proc behaviour has been changed
3. Batch permissions checking
== Explicit Stack
Participable#participants no longer uses recursion to process "self" and
all child objects, instead it uses an Array and processes objects in
breadth-first order. This allows us to for example create a single
Gitlab::ReferenceExtractor instance and pass this to any Procs. Re-using
a ReferenceExtractor removes the need for running potentially many SQL
queries every time a Proc is called on a new object.
== Proc Behaviour Changed
Previously a Proc in Participable was expected to return an Array of
User instances. This has been changed and instead it's now expected that
a Proc modifies the Gitlab::ReferenceExtractor passed to it. The return
value of the Proc is ignored.
== Permissions Checking
The method Participable#participants uses
Ability.users_that_can_read_project to check if the returned users have
access to the project of "self" _without_ running multiple SQL queries
for every user.
Douwe Maan