AS::Duration should serialize empty values correctly. (#25656)

The current implementation serializes zero-length durations incorrectly (it serializes as `"-P"`), and cannot un-serialize itself:

```
[1] pry(main)> ActiveSupport::Duration.parse(0.minutes.iso8601)
ActiveSupport::Duration::ISO8601Parser::ParsingError: Invalid ISO 8601 duration: "-P" is empty duration
from /Users/rando/.gem/ruby/2.3.1/gems/activesupport-5.0.0/lib/active_support/duration/iso8601_parser.rb:96:in `raise_parsing_error'
```

Postgres empty intervals are serialized as `"PT0S"`, which is also parseable by the Duration deserializer, so I've modified the `ISO8601Serializer` to do the same.

Additionally, the `#normalize` function returned a negative sign if `parts` was blank (all zero). Even though this fix does not rely on the sign, I've gone ahead and corrected that, too, in case a future refactoring of `#serialize` uses it.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/duration/iso8601_serializer.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/duration/iso8601_serializer.rb
index 05c6a083a9..eb8136e208 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/duration/iso8601_serializer.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/duration/iso8601_serializer.rb
@@ -12,8 +12,10 @@ module ActiveSupport
 
       # Builds and returns output string.
       def serialize
-        output = 'P'
         parts, sign = normalize
+        return "PT0S".freeze if parts.empty?
+
+        output = 'P'
         output << "#{parts[:years]}Y"   if parts.key?(:years)
         output << "#{parts[:months]}M"  if parts.key?(:months)
         output << "#{parts[:weeks]}W"   if parts.key?(:weeks)