Add support for ignored_properties on NestedDocument

[pimpin]

Summary

This PR adds support for the ignored_properties feature on NestedDocument classes, enabling backward compatibility when deprecated properties exist in nested documents stored in the database.

Problem

Previously, ignored_properties only worked for properties at the root level of Base models. When nested documents contained deprecated properties, the system would raise an ActiveModel::UnknownAttributeError during deserialization, causing reload operations to fail completely.

Performance Impact

Benchmark results for 100,000 nested document operations:

Scenario	Time
No ignored properties	0.009s
With ignored properties	0.025s

For a typical document with 100 nested documents, the overhead is approximately 0.9ms per document reload/find operation. This cost is acceptable for enabling backward compatibility with legacy schemas.

Benefits

✅ Backward compatibility: deprecated properties in nested documents no longer cause errors
✅ Recursive support: works at all nesting levels
✅ Performance optimized: minimal overhead in common use cases
✅ No breaking changes: all existing tests pass

Testing

All 15 nested document tests pass, including:

• Basic ignored properties filtering
• Multi-level nested documents with ignored properties at different levels
• Existing functionality remains unchanged

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Summary of Changes

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This pull request addresses a limitation where ignored_properties only applied to root-level Base models, causing ActiveModel::UnknownAttributeError when nested documents contained deprecated fields. By extending this functionality to NestedDocument classes, the system can now gracefully handle and ignore such properties during deserialization and serialization, ensuring data integrity and preventing failures during reload operations. The changes are also optimized for performance, particularly when no properties need to be ignored.

Highlights

• NestedDocument Ignored Properties: The NestedDocument class now supports the ignored_properties feature, enabling backward compatibility for deprecated fields within nested structures.
• Deserialization and Serialization Filtering: The Types::Nested#cast and Types::Nested#serialize methods have been updated to filter out ignored properties from hash values before instantiating or serializing nested documents.
• Performance Optimization: An optimization was added to skip the filtering logic when no properties are marked as ignored, resulting in approximately a 28% performance improvement in the common case.
• Comprehensive Testing: New tests have been introduced to cover single and multi-level nested documents, ensuring the ignored_properties functionality works as expected across different nesting depths.

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Code Review

This pull request adds support for ignored_properties on NestedDocument classes, which is a great feature for backward compatibility. The changes are logical and include comprehensive tests. I have one suggestion to refactor some duplicated code in lib/couchbase-orm/types/nested.rb to improve maintainability.