Commit fd54d7a2 authored by Lin Jen-Shin's avatar Lin Jen-Shin

Add some more docs to doc/development/utilities.md

parent cfd75101
......@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ still having access the class's implementation with `super`.
There are a few gotchas with it:
- you should always `extend ::Gitlab::Utils::Override` and use `override` to
- you should always [`extend ::Gitlab::Utils::Override`] and use `override` to
guard the "overrider" method to ensure that if the method gets renamed in
CE, the EE override won't be silently forgotten.
- when the "overrider" would add a line in the middle of the CE
......@@ -192,6 +192,8 @@ module EE
end
```
[`extend ::Gitlab::Utils::Override`]: utilities.md#override
#### Use self-descriptive wrapper methods
When it's not possible/logical to modify the implementation of a
......@@ -212,6 +214,7 @@ end
In EE, the implementation `ee/app/models/ee/users.rb` would be:
```ruby
override :full_private_access?
def full_private_access?
super || auditor?
end
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......@@ -45,6 +45,51 @@ We developed a number of utilities to ease development.
[:hello, "world", :this, :crushes, "an entire", "hash"]
```
## [`Override`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/lib/gitlab/utils/override.rb)
* This utility could help us check if a particular method would override
another method or not. It has the same idea of Java's `@Override` annotation
or Scala's `override` keyword. However we only do this check when
`ENV['STATIC_VERIFICATION']` is set to avoid production runtime overhead.
This is useful to check:
* If we have typos in overriding methods.
* If we renamed the overridden methods, making original overriding methods
overrides nothing.
Here's a simple example:
``` ruby
class Base
def execute
end
end
class Derived < Base
extend ::Gitlab::Utils::Override
override :execute # Override check happens here
def execute
end
end
```
This also works on modules:
``` ruby
module Extension
extend ::Gitlab::Utils::Override
override :execute # Modules do not check this immediately
def execute
end
end
class Derived < Base
prepend Extension # Override check happens here, not in the module
end
```
## [`StrongMemoize`](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/lib/gitlab/utils/strong_memoize.rb)
* Memoize the value even if it is `nil` or `false`.
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