This patch fixes a bug in UpdateItem's ReturnValues=ALL_NEW, which in
some cases returned the OLD (pre-modification) value of some of the
attributes, instead of its NEW value.
The bug was caused by a confusion in our JSON utility function,
rjson::set(), which sounds like it can set any member of a map, but in
fact may only be used to add a *new* member - if a member with the same
name (key) already existed, the result is undefined (two values for the
same key). In ReturnValues=ALL_NEW we did exactly this: we started with
a copy of the original item, and then used set() to override some of the
members. This is not allowed.
So in this patch, we introduce a new function, rjson::replace(), which
does what we previously thought that rjson::set() does - i.e., replace a
member if it exists, or if not, add it. We call this function in
the ReturnValues=ALL_NEW code.
This patch also adds a test case that reproduces the incorrect ALL_NEW
results - and gets fixed by this patch.
In an upcoming patch, we should rename the confusingly-named set()
functions and audit all their uses. But we don't do this in this patch
yet. We just add some comments to clarify what set() does - but don't
change it, and just add one new function for replace().
Fixes#9542
Signed-off-by: Nadav Har'El <nyh@scylladb.com>
Message-Id: <20211104134937.40797-1-nyh@scylladb.com>
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