Docs: remove stale drf-writable-nested references, DRY up audit-actor update()

Final-review cleanup on refactor/remove-drf-writable-nested: several
comments/docstrings still described drf-writable-nested's removed
NestedUpdateMixin behavior in the present tense. Rewrote them to explain
the shared context-cache and delete-query-count guarantees in terms of
the current code (bulk-edit's per-field CustomFieldInstanceSerializer
construction, and _sync_custom_fields' single hard-delete query).

Also collapsed the duplicated `if custom_fields_data is not None:
self._sync_custom_fields(...)` line in DocumentSerializer.update()'s
audit-log branches into a single code path using
contextlib.nullcontext(), removing the drift risk that caused the
earlier audit-actor bug.

No behavior change.
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2026-08-25 11:53:42 -07:00
parent ce5d5c33b0
commit 74abdf8ff8
2 changed files with 28 additions and 28 deletions
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@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
from __future__ import annotations
import contextlib
import logging
import math
import re
@@ -956,19 +957,19 @@ def validate_documentlink_targets(user, doc_ids):
)
# drf-writable-nested revalidates a document's custom_fields more than once
# per request: once as the ordinary nested list, then again per-item while
# matching existing vs. new CustomFieldInstance rows during save() -- and
# that second pass builds a brand new serializer (and field) instance per
# item (see its update_or_create_reverse_relations / _get_serializer_for_field),
# so a cache on the field instance alone only helps the first pass. It does,
# however, explicitly pass `context=self.context` to every one of those
# fresh serializers -- the *same* dict object the outer DocumentSerializer
# is using, not a copy. That context dict is already request-scoped (DRF
# builds it fresh per request via get_serializer_context()), so stashing the
# resolved CustomField objects there -- rather than in some new global/
# thread-local cache -- lets every later pass reuse them for free while
# staying entirely within DRF's existing, already-request-scoped machinery.
# A CustomField lookup cache scoped to a single field/serializer instance
# only helps within that one instance's own validation pass. Several call
# sites, though, build more than one CustomFieldInstanceSerializer (or its
# CustomFieldInstanceListSerializer/field) for the same request and pass
# each of them `context=self.context` -- the *same* dict object, not a
# copy -- e.g. bulk-edit's _validate_custom_field_values() constructing a
# fresh CustomFieldInstanceSerializer per submitted field. That context
# dict is already request-scoped (DRF builds it fresh per request via
# get_serializer_context()), so stashing the resolved CustomField objects
# there -- rather than in some new global/thread-local cache -- lets every
# one of those separately-instantiated serializers reuse them for free
# while staying entirely within DRF's existing, already-request-scoped
# machinery.
_CUSTOM_FIELD_CONTEXT_CACHE_KEY = "_custom_field_lookup_cache"
@@ -1438,12 +1439,12 @@ class DocumentSerializer(
custom_fields_data = validated_data.pop("custom_fields", None)
if settings.AUDIT_LOG_ENABLED:
with set_actor(self.user):
super().update(instance, validated_data)
if custom_fields_data is not None:
self._sync_custom_fields(instance, custom_fields_data)
else:
actor_context = (
set_actor(self.user)
if settings.AUDIT_LOG_ENABLED
else contextlib.nullcontext()
)
with actor_context:
super().update(instance, validated_data)
if custom_fields_data is not None:
self._sync_custom_fields(instance, custom_fields_data)
@@ -592,9 +592,10 @@ class TestCustomFieldsAPI(DirectoriesMixin, APITestCase):
WHEN:
- A second, separately-instantiated CustomFieldInstanceSerializer
validates the same field id, sharing that same context
(this is what drf-writable-nested does: it rebuilds a fresh
serializer -- and fresh field instances -- per item while
matching existing vs. new instances during save())
(this mirrors what real call sites do, e.g. bulk-edit's
validate_custom_fields()/_validate_custom_field_values()
constructing a fresh CustomFieldInstanceSerializer per
submitted field, all sharing the outer serializer's context)
THEN:
- No additional query is issued to resolve the CustomField
"""
@@ -1560,12 +1561,10 @@ class TestCustomFieldsAPI(DirectoriesMixin, APITestCase):
- A PATCH request updates 2 of them, adds 1 new one, and omits
the 3rd (which should be deleted)
THEN:
- The number of queries used to create/update/delete the
CustomFieldInstance rows is bounded and does not scale with
drf-writable-nested's per-item serializer-rebuild + separate
soft-delete-then-hard-delete-after pattern (one query per
CustomFieldInstance write via update_or_create, plus exactly
one final hard-delete query -- not two delete passes)
- The omitted custom field is removed via exactly one
delete-shaped query, not drf-writable-nested's old two-step
soft-delete-then-hard-delete-after pattern (two delete
passes)
"""
doc = Document.objects.create(
title="WOW",