Implement HttpRequest proxying with __getattr__ for optimized access. #5576
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@yotamofek Looks interesting. Thanks. I need to have a little think about it.
@encode/django-rest-framework-core-team Anyone care to comment?
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@rpkilby - hey, I added two simple tests. Do you think it's enough? As for the CI, Travis seems to not like my branch, maybe one of the admins can manually trigger a build? |
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Somehow travis doesn't seem to know about this PR so I can't trigger a manual build. |
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@xordoquy I found it under the "Requests" tab, not under the "Pull Requests" tab. |
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Yup, but still can't do any action on it. |
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I'll email Travis support, a quick Google search says that's what's needed in these cases. |
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| six.reraise(inner_info[0], inner_info[1], outer_info[2].tb_next) |
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I don't think this is actually necessary. It was in the original implementation, since we were re-raising from the attribute access on the underlying WSGIRequest object. In this case, we're raising from Request.__getattribute__, so catching and reraising should be superfluous.
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| wsgi_request.__dict__['inner_property'] = sentinel |
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It shouldn't be necessary to do reference the underlying `dict. Regular attribute setting should be sufficient.
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Hi @yotamofek - I've left a few comments here, but have implemented them in #5617. I'm going to go ahead and close this in favor of the updated PR. Again, thanks for submitting this. |
I was profiling our production server and notices that quite a lot of the time it took for our
ListSerializer.to_representationto run was inRequest.__getattribute__.The way
__getattribute__was implemented was catchingAttributeErrorexceptions, which becomes quite a bottleneck when handling thousands of these exceptions for every request. Catching exceptions is expensive. Fortunately,__getattr__is the interpreter-optimized way of doing the exact same thing. I made sure to keep the same traceback in the case of a trueAttributeError.On our production server, this change sped up certain requests by about 0.4 seconds, which is a large percent of a request that takes ~3 seconds to process.