Use item proxies for JSON caching

That is, once we get our list of IDs from the search engine, only
fetch records whose JSON we don't already have cached.

It's simpler here to use as_json, but it'd probably be even faster
if I figure out how to serve a plain JSON string from a Rails
controller. In the meantime, requests of entirely cached items
are coming in at about 85ms on average on my box (dev, cache
classes, many items), about 10ms better than the last
iteration.

app/controllers/items_controller.rb

@@ -13,20 +13,29 @@ class ItemsController < ApplicationController
         end
         # Note that we sort by name by hand, since we might have to use
         # fallbacks after the fact
+        # TODO: use proxies for everything!
+        output_format = params[:format] == :html ? :records : :proxies
         @items = Item::Search::Query.from_text(@query, current_user).
-          paginate(:page => params[:page], :per_page => per_page)
+          paginate(page: params[:page], per_page: per_page, as: output_format)
         assign_closeted!
         respond_to do |format|
           format.html { render }
-          format.json { render :json => {:items => @items, :total_pages => @items.total_pages} }
-          format.js { render :json => {:items => @items, :total_pages => @items.total_pages}, :callback => params[:callback] }
+          format.json {
+            @items.prepare_method(:as_json)
+            render json: {items: @items, total_pages: @items.total_pages}
+          }
+          format.js {
+            @items.prepare_method(:as_json)
+            render json: {items: @items, total_pages: @items.total_pages},
+                   callback: params[:callback]
+          }
         end
       end
     elsif params.has_key?(:ids) && params[:ids].is_a?(Array)
       @items = Item.includes(:translations).find(params[:ids])
       assign_closeted!
       respond_to do |format|
-        format.json { render :json => @items }
+        format.json { render json: @items }
       end
     else
       respond_to do |format|
@@ -35,7 +44,7 @@ class ItemsController < ApplicationController
             @newest_items = Item.newest.includes(:translations).limit(18)
           end
         }
-        format.js { render :json => {:error => '$q required'}}
+        format.js { render json: {error: '$q required'}}
       end
     end
   end
@@ -47,10 +56,10 @@ class ItemsController < ApplicationController
       format.html do
         unless localized_fragment_exist?("items/#{@item.id} info")
           @occupied_zones = @item.occupied_zones(
-            :scope => Zone.includes_translations.alphabetical
+            scope: Zone.includes_translations.alphabetical
           )
           @restricted_zones = @item.restricted_zones(
-            :scope => Zone.includes_translations.alphabetical
+            scope: Zone.includes_translations.alphabetical
           )
         end
         
@@ -72,7 +81,7 @@ class ItemsController < ApplicationController
           end
           
           @current_user_quantities = Hash.new(0) # default is zero
-          hangers = current_user.closet_hangers.where(:item_id => @item.id).
+          hangers = current_user.closet_hangers.where(item_id: @item.id).
             select([:owned, :list_id, :quantity])
             
           hangers.each do |hanger|
@@ -122,8 +131,8 @@ class ItemsController < ApplicationController
     @items = []
     respond_to do |format|
       format.html { flash.now[:alert] = e.message; render }
-      format.json { render :json => {:error => e.message} }
-      format.js   { render :json => {:error => e.message},
+      format.json { render :json => {error: e.message} }
+      format.js   { render :json => {error: e.message},
                            :callback => params[:callback] }
     end
   end

app/flex/flex_search_extender.rb

@@ -8,13 +8,21 @@ module FlexSearchExtender
     true
   end
 
+  def proxied_collection
+    Item.build_proxies(collection.map(&:_id)).tap do |proxies|
+      proxies.extend Flex::Result::Collection
+      proxies.setup(self['hits']['total'], variables)
+    end
+  end
+
   def scoped_loaded_collection(options)
     options[:scopes] ||= {}
     @loaded_collection ||= begin
       records_by_class_and_id_str = {}
-      # returns a structure like {Comment=>[{"_id"=>"123", ...}, {...}], BlogPost=>[...]}
-      h = collection.group_by { |d| d.mapped_class(should_raise=true) }
-      h.each do |klass, docs|
+      grouped_collection = collection.group_by { |d|
+        d.mapped_class(should_raise=true)
+      }
+      grouped_collection.each do |klass, docs|
         record_ids = docs.map(&:_id)
         scope = options[:scopes][klass.name] || klass.scoped
         records = scope.find(record_ids)

app/models/item.rb

@@ -404,6 +404,10 @@ class Item < ActiveRecord::Base
     items.values
   end
 
+  def self.build_proxies(ids)
+    Item::ProxyArray.new(ids)
+  end
+
   class << self
     MALL_HOST = 'ncmall.neopets.com'
     MALL_MAIN_PATH = '/mall/shop.phtml'

app/models/item/proxy.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+class Item
+  class Proxy
+    include FragmentLocalization
+
+    attr_reader :id
+    attr_writer :item
+
+    def initialize(id)
+      @id = id
+      @known_method_outputs = {}
+    end
+
+    def method_cached?(method_name)
+      # TODO: is there a way to cache nil? Right now we treat is as a miss.
+      # We eagerly read the cache rather than just check if the value exists,
+      # which will usually cut down on cache requests.
+      @known_method_outputs[method_name] ||= Rails.cache.read(
+        method_fragment_key(method_name))
+      !@known_method_outputs[method_name].nil?
+    end
+
+    def as_json(options={})
+      cache_method(:as_json)
+    end
+
+    private
+
+    def cache_method(method_name, &block)
+      # Two layers of cache: a local copy, in case the method is called again,
+      # and then the Rails cache, before we hit the actual method call.
+      @known_method_outputs[method_name] ||= begin
+        key = method_fragment_key(method_name)
+        Rails.cache.fetch(key) { item.send(method_name) }
+      end
+    end
+
+    def item
+      @item ||= Item.find(@id)
+    end
+
+    def method_fragment_key(method_name)
+      localize_fragment_key("item/#{@id}##{method_name}", I18n.locale)
+    end
+  end
+end

app/models/item/proxy_array.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+class Item
+  class ProxyArray < Array
+    METHOD_SCOPES = {as_json: Item.includes(:translations)}
+
+    def initialize(ids)
+      self.replace(ids.map { |id| Proxy.new(id.to_i) })
+    end
+
+    def prepare_method(method_name)
+      missed_proxies_by_id = self.
+        reject { |p| p.method_cached?(method_name) }.
+        index_by(&:id)
+      item_scope = METHOD_SCOPES[method_name.to_sym] || Item.scoped
+      item_scope.find(missed_proxies_by_id.keys).each do |item|
+        missed_proxies_by_id[item.id].item = item
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end

app/models/item/search/query.rb

@@ -93,10 +93,15 @@ class Item
         end
         
         result = FlexSearch.item_search(final_flex_params)
+
+        if options[:as] == :proxies
+          result.proxied_collection
+        else
           result.scoped_loaded_collection(
             :scopes => {'Item' => Item.includes(:translations)}
           )
         end
+      end
       
       # Load the text query labels from I18n, so that when we see, say,
       # the filter "species:acara", we know it means species_support_id.