Arvados

The destroy method in API -> application_controller.rb is as follows:

  def destroy
    @object.destroy
    show
  end

From this we can see that, after destroy operation the entire object is returned (uuid is set to nil). In case of large objects such as a collection with large manifest_text, this seems unnecessary overhead and performance killer.

If we do need to return the object, we need to nil all non-essential attributes in the object and send only what is needed (similar to setting uuid to nil).