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+module ActiveRecord
+  module Attributes
+
+     # Returns true if the given attribute is in the attributes hash
+     def has_attribute?(attr_name)
+       _attributes.key?(attr_name)
+     end
+
+     # Returns an array of names for the attributes available on this object sorted alphabetically.
+     def attribute_names
+       _attributes.keys.sort!
+     end
+
+     # Returns a hash of all the attributes with their names as keys and the values of the attributes as values.
+     def attributes
+       attributes = _attributes.dup
+       attributes.typecast! unless _attributes.frozen?
+       attributes.to_h
+     end
+
+     protected
+
+     # Not to be confused with the public #attributes method, which returns a typecasted Hash.
+     def _attributes
+       @attributes
+     end
+
+     def initialize_attribute_store(merge_attributes = nil)
+       @attributes = ActiveRecord::Attributes::Store.new
+       @attributes.merge!(merge_attributes) if merge_attributes
+       @attributes.types.merge!(self.class.attribute_types)
+       @attributes.aliases.merge!('id' => self.class.primary_key) unless 'id' == self.class.primary_key
+       @attributes
+     end
+
+  end
+end