Refactor Project#create_or_update_import_data
In https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/release/framework/issues/28 we found that this method was changed a lot over the years: 43 times if our calculations were correct. Looking at the method, it had quite a few branches going on: def create_or_update_import_data(data: nil, credentials: nil) return if data.nil? && credentials.nil? project_import_data = import_data || build_import_data if data project_import_data.data ||= {} project_import_data.data = project_import_data.data.merge(data) end if credentials project_import_data.credentials ||= {} project_import_data.credentials = project_import_data.credentials.merge(credentials) end project_import_data end If we turn the || and ||= operators into regular if statements, we can see a bit more clearly that this method has quite a lot of branches in it: def create_or_update_import_data(data: nil, credentials: nil) if data.nil? && credentials.nil? return else project_import_data = if import_data import_data else build_import_data end if data if project_import_data.data # nothing else project_import_data.data = {} end project_import_data.data = project_import_data.data.merge(data) end if credentials if project_import_data.credentials # nothing else project_import_data.credentials = {} end project_import_data.credentials = project_import_data.credentials.merge(credentials) end project_import_data end end The number of if statements and branches here makes it easy to make mistakes. To resolve this, we refactor this code in such a way that we can get rid of all but the first `if data.nil? && credentials.nil?` statement. We can do this by simply sending `to_h` to `nil` in the right places, which removes the need for statements such as `if data`. Since this data gets written to a database, in ProjectImportData we do make sure to not write empty Hash values. This requires an `unless` (which is really a `if !`), but the resulting code is still very easy to read.
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