Spike on attempting to serialize view components

Gemfile.lock

@@ -167,6 +167,8 @@ GEM
     tzinfo (1.2.7)
       thread_safe (~> 0.1)
     unicode-display_width (1.7.0)
+    view_component (2.19.1)
+      activesupport (>= 5.0.0, < 7.0)
     websocket-driver (0.7.3)
       websocket-extensions (>= 0.1.0)
     websocket-extensions (0.1.5)
@@ -185,6 +187,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   spy
   sqlite3
   standardrb
+  view_component
 
 BUNDLED WITH
    2.1.4

futurism.gemspec

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.add_development_dependency "standardrb"
   spec.add_development_dependency "sqlite3"
   spec.add_development_dependency "spy"
+  spec.add_development_dependency "view_component"
 
   spec.add_dependency "rack", "~> 2.0"
   spec.add_dependency "rails", ">= 5.2"

lib/futurism.rb

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 require "futurism/engine"
 require "futurism/channel"
 require "futurism/helpers"
+require "futurism/shims/view_component_serializer"
 
 module Futurism
   extend ActiveSupport::Autoload

lib/futurism/shims/view_component_serializer.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+return unless defined?(ViewComponent)
+
+def serialize_value(value)
+  if value.is_a?(ActiveRecord::Base) && !value.new_record?
+    value.to_global_id.to_s
+  else
+    value
+  end
+end
+
+module ViewComponent
+  module FuturismSerializer
+    def to_futurism_serializable
+      transformed_raw_initialization_arguments.to_json
+    end
+
+    private
+
+    def transformed_raw_initialization_arguments
+      @raw_initialization_arguments.map do |value|
+        if value.is_a?(Hash)
+          require_relative "../shims/deep_transform_values" unless value.respond_to? :deep_transform_values
+          value.deep_transform_values { |val| serialize_value(val) }
+        else
+          serialize_value(value)
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+  class Base
+    # Override base new method so that we can hack into the
+    # initialization process for each view component
+    # Ideally, a PR to the ViewComponent team would allow us to remove our implementation
+    # include FuturismSerializer
+
+    def self.new(*arguments, &block)
+      instance = allocate
+      instance.singleton_class.include(FuturismSerializer)
+      instance.instance_variable_set("@raw_initialization_arguments", arguments)
+      instance.send(:initialize, *arguments, &block)
+      instance
+    end
+  end
+end

test/test_helper.rb

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Configure Rails Environment
 ENV["RAILS_ENV"] = "test"
 
+require "view_component"
 require_relative "../test/dummy/config/environment"
 require "rails/test_help"
 require "nokogiri"

test/view_components/serializer_test.rb

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+require "test_helper"
+
+class Futurism::Test < ActiveSupport::TestCase
+  test "component is a ViewComponent" do
+    assert_includes NoArgumentComponent.ancestors, ViewComponent::Base
+    assert_includes SimpleArgumentComponent.ancestors, ViewComponent::Base
+    assert_includes ComplexArgumentComponent.ancestors, ViewComponent::Base
+  end
+
+  test "component instance responds to #to_futurism_serializable" do
+    instance = NoArgumentComponent.new
+    assert_respond_to instance, :to_futurism_serializable
+  end
+
+  test "component instance saves no arguments" do
+    instance = NoArgumentComponent.new
+
+    assert_respond_to instance, :to_futurism_serializable
+    assert_equal instance.instance_variable_get("@raw_initialization_arguments"), []
+    assert_equal instance.to_futurism_serializable, [].to_json
+  end
+
+  test "component instance saves simple arguments" do
+    instance = SimpleArgumentComponent.new(false, "/to/somewhere")
+
+    assert_respond_to instance, :to_futurism_serializable
+    assert_equal instance.instance_variable_get("@raw_initialization_arguments"), [false, "/to/somewhere"]
+    assert_equal instance.to_futurism_serializable, [false, "/to/somewhere"].to_json
+  end
+
+  test "component instance saves complex arguments" do
+    post = Post.create title: "Lorem"
+    instance = ComplexArgumentComponent.new(false, "/to/somewhere", deactivate: "Deactivate!", active: "Activate!", ar_object: post)
+
+    assert_respond_to instance, :to_futurism_serializable
+    assert_equal instance.instance_variable_get("@raw_initialization_arguments"), [false, "/to/somewhere", deactivate: "Deactivate!", active: "Activate!", ar_object: post]
+    assert_equal instance.to_futurism_serializable, [false, "/to/somewhere", deactivate: "Deactivate!", active: "Activate!", ar_object: post.to_global_id.to_s].to_json
+  end
+end
+
+class NoArgumentComponent < ViewComponent::Base
+  def call
+    link_to active? ? "Deactivate" : "Activate", "/to/somewhere"
+  end
+
+  def active?
+    [true, false].sample
+  end
+end
+
+class SimpleArgumentComponent < ViewComponent::Base
+  def initialize(active, path)
+    @active, @path = active, path
+  end
+
+  def call
+    link_to active ? "Deactivate" : "Activate", path
+  end
+
+  attr_reader :active, :path
+end
+
+class ComplexArgumentComponent < ViewComponent::Base
+  def initialize(active, path, decativate: "Deactivate", activate: "Activate", **others)
+    @active, @path = active, path
+    @deactivate = decativate
+    @activate = activate
+    @others = others
+  end
+
+  def call
+    link_to active ? "Deactivate" : "Activate", path
+  end
+
+  attr_reader :active, :path, :deactivate, :activate, :others
+end