From 79918fef34a65afcea2eb30e370b036fd550911d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cody Cutrer <cody@cutrer.us>
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 05:14:52 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix race condition when using semantic methods

Enumerable and predicate methods will now behave better when they refer
to stale proxies - filtering methods will just remove them. I run into
this occasionally when I have multiple rules firing, and some of them
are adding or removing items - and calling items.locations would raise
a NoMethodError for #location? due to a race condition. This should no
longer happen - it will just ignore the now-stale items.

Signed-off-by: Cody Cutrer <cody@cutrer.us>
---
 lib/openhab/core/items/proxy.rb       | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 spec/openhab/core/items/proxy_spec.rb |  4 ++++
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/openhab/core/items/proxy.rb b/lib/openhab/core/items/proxy.rb
index 2a7a7d0f2e..84ba60a3b9 100644
--- a/lib/openhab/core/items/proxy.rb
+++ b/lib/openhab/core/items/proxy.rb
@@ -97,6 +97,35 @@ def members
           __getobj__.members
         end
 
+        # Several methods can just return nil when it's a dummy item
+        # This helps when you're doing something like `items.locations.select {}`
+        # when items are getting created and removed in a concurrent thread to
+        # not have errors because an item disappeared
+        %i[
+          equipment
+          equipment?
+          equipment_type
+          location
+          location?
+          location_type
+          member_of?
+          point?
+          point_type
+          property_type
+          semantic?
+          semantic_type
+          tagged?
+        ].each do |m|
+          class_eval <<~RUBY, __FILE__, __LINE__ + 1
+            def #{m}(*args)              # def equipment(*args)
+              target = __getobj__        #   target = __getobj__
+              return nil if target.nil?  #   return nil if target.nil?
+                                         #
+              target.#{m}(*args)         #   target.equipment(*args)
+            end                          # end
+          RUBY
+        end
+
         # @return [String]
         def to_s
           return name if __getobj__.nil?
diff --git a/spec/openhab/core/items/proxy_spec.rb b/spec/openhab/core/items/proxy_spec.rb
index 74e44f7af6..3790bb89b1 100644
--- a/spec/openhab/core/items/proxy_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/openhab/core/items/proxy_spec.rb
@@ -98,6 +98,10 @@
       expect(item).not_to respond_to(:command)
       expect { item.command }.to raise_error(NoMethodError)
     end
+
+    it "disappears when calling semantic predicates on an array" do
+      expect([item].locations).to eql []
+    end
   end
 
   it "does not respond to GroupItem#members if it's backed by a non-GroupItem" do