Duplicated requests to API

[skuark]

Orientation

While debugging something else, we've found in our internal BeBanjo's logging system a series of duplicated API requests: one authorized, and another one unauthorized. After digging a bit on this, we've found this problem comes from the Almodovar gem.

How to reproduce

By simply running this snippet locally…

require "almodovar"
auth = Almodovar::DigestAuth.new("realm", "user", "password")
movida = Almodovar::Resource("https://staging-movida.bebanjo.net/api", auth)
movida.titles(external_id: "wadus").first

…we can find duplicated requests in our logs for each call to the API:

This happens with other actions, non-only with GET requests.

[littlemove]

@skuark I'm not able to reproduce this, meaning seen an authorized request followed by an authorized one.

Seen duplicated API calls when using Almodovar in console is expected. If you instantiate an Almodovar::Resource in a console, it's normal to see duplicate API calls because of how Almodovar is built: it delegates the inspect method to the HTTP call so everytime IRB outputs a value it will call inspect hence doing another request.

Do you have any other input (i.e. what user were you using, which Almodovar version, ...) ?

[skuark]

@littlemove Hi Diego. I've tried and reproduced it again, but it's weird… I can't reproduce it consistently (on every run of the snippet).

But I've reproduced it with two combinations:

• Ruby 2.3.3 and almodovar 1.7.3
• Ruby 2.7.2 and almodovar 1.7.7

I will ping you later over Slack to discuss.