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Relying on unknownProperty breaks can helper #126

@oakho

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@oakho

First of all, thanks for writing this addon, we are relying a lot on it in our app.

While upgrading to the latest version of ember-can we came across an issue that currently breaks our app.

We rely on the unknownProperty of EmberObject to match abilities with a preloaded list we get from our backend to avoid defining all of them by hands.

To give you some insight, here's our base ability class :

export default class Base extends Ability {
  @alias('session.currentUser') user;
  @alias('session.currentDistributor') distributor;

  hasAbility(key) {
    let user = this.get('user');
    return user ? user.hasAbility(camelize(key.replace('can', '')), this.get('subject')) : false;
  }

  unknownProperty(key) {
    return this.hasAbility(key);
  }
}

Unfortunately, there was a change introduced in 2d8a197#diff-6ef2539ada25eeefeef778ae6f0aef826e9bf2ba2e8b94cf138f1ea70267de2dR21, that breaks the helper in our case.

We get the error :

Uncaught (in promise) Error: Assertion Failed: You attempted to access the `canManage` property (of <idol@ability:product::ember524>).
Since Ember 3.1, this is usually fine as you no longer need to use `.get()`
to access computed properties. However, in this case, the object in question
is a special kind of Ember object (a proxy). Therefore, it is still necessary
to use `.get('canManage')` in this case.

This obviously happens because of our use of unknownProperty while ember-can doesn't use ember's get method to retrieve the abilities properties, removing it fixes the error.

I understand that you removed the use ember's get method to support native class but our issue can easily be fixed by checking if the ability inherits EmberObject like so :

if(ability instanceof EmberObject) {
  return ability.get(propertyName);
}

return ability[propertyName];

I can open a PR with our fix if this is something you'd be okay with.

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