fix: Shallow copy group_entities and person_entity when cloning TBS #294
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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 thatGroupEntity
andPopulationEntity
objects were included within theTaxBenefitySystem
'sentities
key, when they are not.This led structural reform runs to crash, as the
GroupEntity
andPopulationEntity
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
andPopulationEntity
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).