This commit drops the `before_action :preload_json` callback in `ApplicationController` as it adds unnecessary complexity to `ApplicationController` as well as other controllers which has to skip this callback. The source of the complexity comes mainly from the following two conditionals in the `preload_json` method:
```
# We don't preload JSON on xhr or JSON request
return if request.xhr? || request.format.json?
# if we are posting in makes no sense to preload
return if request.method != "GET"
```
Basically, the conditionals solely exists for optimization purposes to ensure that we don't run the preloading code when the request is not a GET request and the response is not expected to be HTML. The key problem here is that the conditionals are trying to expect what the content type of the response will be and this has proven to be hard to get right. Instead, we can simplify this problem by running the preloading code in a more deterministic way which is to preload only when the `application` layout is being rendered and this is main change that this commit introduces.
Rails 6.1.3.1 deprecates a few API and has some internal changes that break our tests suite, so this commit fixes all the deprecations and errors and now Discourse should be fully compatible with Rails 6.1.3.1. We also have a new release of the rails_failover gem that's compatible with Rails 6.1.3.1.
This column often breaks remaps because of some weird, long URLs. The data isn't that important, so truncating a couple of URLs doesn't hurt that much.
This reduces chances of errors where consumers of strings mutate inputs
and reduces memory usage of the app.
Test suite passes now, but there may be some stuff left, so we will run
a few sites on a branch prior to merging
* Cuts number of queries from 273 to 89
* Add some specs
* For a table with 500 posts, benchmarks locally shows a runtime
reduction from 0.046929135 to 0.032694705.
- new hidden site setting 'migrate_to_new_scheme' (defaults to false)
- new rake tasks to toggle migration to new scheme
- FIX: migrate_to_new_scheme also works with CDN
- PERF: improve perf of the DbHelper.remap method
- REFACTOR: UrlHelper is now a class
