This reverts commit 671eb742.

This is not a change we would like moving forward.

ActiveModel::Type)

Some code was previously referring to ActiveModel::Type::*. This could
cause issues in the future if any of the ActiveRecord::Type classes were
overridden in the future.

When looking for mutation, we compare the serialized version of the
value to the before_type_cast form. `Type::Serialized` was breaking this
contract by passing the already serialized attribute to the subtype's
mutation detection. This never manifested previously, as all mutable
subtypes either didn't do anything in their `serialize` method, or had a
way to detect double serialization (e.g. `is_a?(String)`). However, now
that JSON types can handle string primitives, we need to avoid double
serialization.

Fixes #24993.

This moves a bit more of the logic required for dirty checking into the
attribute objects. I had hoped to remove the `with_value_from_database`
stuff, but unfortunately just calling `dup` on the attribute objects
isn't enough, since the values might contain deeply nested data
structures. I think this can be cleaned up further.

This makes most dirty checking become lazy, and reduces the number of
object allocations and amount of CPU time when assigning a value. This
opens the door (but doesn't quite finish) to improving the performance
of writes to a place comparable to 4.1

The first step of bringing typecasting to ActiveModel

This is obviously all very internal, but sometimes you have to look at
it... and when you do, it'll save a lot of confusion if it doesn't lie
about its identity.

The subtype will (quite reasonably) ignore the possibility that it has
`changed_in_place?` by becoming nil.

Fixes #19467

The type code is actually quite accessible, and I'm planning to
encourage people to look at the files in the `type` folder to learn more
about how it works. This will help reduce the noise from code that is
less about type casting, and more about random AR nonsense.

It only existed to make sure the subclasses of `Delegator` were YAML
serializable. As of Ruby 2.2, these are YAML dumpable by default, as it
includes
https://github.com/tenderlove/psych/commit/2a4d9568f7d5d19c00231cf48eb855cc45ec3394

We were ignoring the `default_value?` escape clause in the serialized
type, which caused the default value to always be treated as changed.

Fixes #18169

There is a significant performance difference between the two. Closes

Fixes #16701

Ruby generally does not use the is_* prefix on predicate methods.

We have several mutable types on Active Record now. (Serialized, JSON,
HStore). We need to be able to detect if these have been modified in
place.

On MySQL and PostgreSQL, the adapter does not type cast virtual columns
for us.

In some cases there is a difference between the two, we should always
be doing one or the other. For convenience, `type_cast` is still a
private method on type, so new types that do not need different behavior
don't need to implement two methods, but it has been moved to private so
it cannot be used accidentally.

- The following is now true for all types, all the time
  - `model.attribute_before_type_cast == given_value`
  - `model.attribute == model.save_and_reload.attribute`
  - `model.attribute == model.dup.attribute`
  - `model.attribute == YAML.load(YAML.dump(model)).attribute`
- Removes the remaining types implementing `type_cast_for_write`
- Simplifies the implementation of time zone aware attributes
- Brings tz aware attributes closer to being implemented as an attribute
  decorator
- Adds additional point of control for custom types

The definition of `write_attribute` in dirty checking ultimately leads
to the columns calling `type_cast` on the value to perform the
comparison. However, this is a potentially expensive computation that we
cache when it occurs in `read_attribute`. The only case that we need the
non-type-cast form is for numeric, so we pass that through as well
(something I'm looking to remove in the future).

This also reduces the number of places that manually access various
stages in an attribute's type casting lifecycle, which will aid in one
of the larger refactorings that I'm working on.

This adds a regression test for #14411, which was fixed by #15503.

Closes #14411
Closes #14595

The types know more about what is going on than the dirty module. Let's
ask them!

Nearly completely implemented in terms of custom properties.
`_before_type_cast` now stores the raw serialized string consistently,
which removes the need to keep track of "state". The following is now
consistently true:

- `model.serialized == model.reload.serialized`
- A model can be dumped and loaded infinitely without changing
- A model can be saved and reloaded infinitely without changing

Many of the methods defined in `AttributeMethods::Serialization` can be
refactored onto this type as well, but this is a reasonable small step.
Removes the `Type` class, and the need for `decorate_columns` to handle
serialized types.