rm deep_munge. You will live on in our hearts (and git history)

Now that we have encoding strategies, we can just walk the params hash
once to encode as HWIA, and remove nils.

actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/http/request.rb

@@ -290,15 +290,15 @@ def session_options=(options)
 
     # Override Rack's GET method to support indifferent access
     def GET
-      @env["action_dispatch.request.query_parameters"] ||= Utils.deep_munge(normalize_encode_params(super || {}))
+      @env["action_dispatch.request.query_parameters"] ||= normalize_encode_params(super || {})
     rescue Rack::Utils::ParameterTypeError, Rack::Utils::InvalidParameterError => e
       raise ActionController::BadRequest.new(:query, e)
     end
     alias :query_parameters :GET
 
     # Override Rack's POST method to support indifferent access
     def POST
-      @env["action_dispatch.request.request_parameters"] ||= Utils.deep_munge(normalize_encode_params(super || {}))
+      @env["action_dispatch.request.request_parameters"] ||= normalize_encode_params(super || {})
     rescue Rack::Utils::ParameterTypeError, Rack::Utils::InvalidParameterError => e
       raise ActionController::BadRequest.new(:request, e)
     end
@@ -318,11 +318,6 @@ def local?
       LOCALHOST =~ remote_addr && LOCALHOST =~ remote_ip
     end
 
-    protected
-      def parse_query(*)
-        Utils.deep_munge(super)
-      end
-
     private
       def check_method(name)
         HTTP_METHOD_LOOKUP[name] || raise(ActionController::UnknownHttpMethod, "#{name}, accepted HTTP methods are #{HTTP_METHODS[0...-1].join(', ')}, and #{HTTP_METHODS[-1]}")

actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/middleware/params_parser.rb

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ def initialize(message, original_exception)
       Mime::JSON => lambda { |raw_post|
         data = ActiveSupport::JSON.decode(raw_post)
         data = {:_json => data} unless data.is_a?(Hash)
-        Request::Utils.deep_munge(data).with_indifferent_access
+        Request::Utils.normalize_encode_params(data)
       }
     }
 

actionpack/lib/action_dispatch/request/utils.rb

@@ -6,10 +6,14 @@ class Utils # :nodoc:
       self.perform_deep_munge = true
 
       def self.normalize_encode_params(params)
-        ParamEncoder.normalize_encode_params params
+        if perform_deep_munge
+          NoNilParamEncoder.normalize_encode_params params
+        else
+          ParamEncoder.normalize_encode_params params
+        end
       end
 
-      class ParamEncoder
+      class ParamEncoder # :nodoc:
         # Convert nested Hash to HashWithIndifferentAccess.
         #
         def self.normalize_encode_params(params)
@@ -34,22 +38,12 @@ def self.handle_array(params)
         end
       end
 
-      class << self
-        # Remove nils from the params hash
-        def deep_munge(hash)
-          return hash unless perform_deep_munge
-
-          hash.each do |k, v|
-            case v
-            when Array
-              v.grep(Hash) { |x| deep_munge(x) }
-              v.compact!
-            when Hash
-              deep_munge(v)
-            end
-          end
-
-          hash
+      # Remove nils from the params hash
+      class NoNilParamEncoder < ParamEncoder # :nodoc:
+        def self.handle_array(params)
+          list = super
+          list.compact!
+          list
         end
       end
     end