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Bolt: Remove redundant deepcopy in JSON processing

💡 What:
Removed copy.deepcopy(data) calls in mask_json, redact_json, and process_json_with_mode in app/services/json_processor.py.

🎯 Why:
The process_json_recursive function iterates through the input data and builds a new result structure (dictionary or list) as it goes. Therefore, pre-copying the data is redundant. For large JSON payloads, deepcopy is expensive in both CPU and memory.

📊 Impact:

  • Reduces memory usage by ~50% during processing (avoids holding an extra copy).
  • Improves processing speed by ~1.6x for large JSON structures (based on benchmarks).

🔬 Measurement:
Verified with pytest tests/test_json_mode.py to ensure correctness and no regressions in JSON processing logic.
Verified with a benchmark script that 50k item list processing time dropped from ~1.36s to ~0.81s.


PR created automatically by Jules for task 14825583765337528993 started by @kiku-jw

Optimizes `app/services/json_processor.py` by removing unnecessary
`copy.deepcopy()` calls. The `process_json_recursive` function already
constructs a new data structure during traversal, making the initial
deep copy redundant and wasteful (O(N) time and memory overhead).

Benchmarking showed a ~1.6x speedup for large JSON payloads.
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@kiku-jw kiku-jw marked this pull request as ready for review December 24, 2025 11:33
@kiku-jw kiku-jw closed this Dec 24, 2025
@kiku-jw kiku-jw deleted the bolt-json-deepcopy-opt-14825583765337528993 branch December 26, 2025 18:06
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