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@anth-volk anth-volk commented Oct 16, 2024

Fixes #293.

Previous fixes to -core ensured that when a TaxBenefitSystem object was cloned via its internal .clone() method, entities themselves were shallow copied to prevent stale variable versions from being transferred between systems. However, this fix assumed that GroupEntity and PopulationEntity objects were included within the TaxBenefitySystem's entities key, when they are not.

This led structural reform runs to crash, as the GroupEntity and PopulationEntity would possess stale variable versions from the API's first instantiation of the default tax-benefit system, attempt to calculate using this, then crash when they couldn't find a variable that had been newly created as part of a structural reform.

This PR ensures that GroupEntity and PopulationEntity objects are also shallow-copied to prevent this behavior. This PR does not add tests at the moment, but I have opened an issue in the -api package laying out a comprehensive series of tests around structural reforms at PolicyEngine/policyengine-api#1885. I have also opened a draft PR in the -us package to ensure these changes cause no test failures there (PolicyEngine/policyengine-us#5240).

@anth-volk anth-volk marked this pull request as draft October 16, 2024 17:52
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Temporarily moving to draft; I think we can actually re-enable the two tests removed previously, but want to confirm

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