Prevent creation of unnecessary fieldset(mirror and revise changes from #2370)

Co-authored-by: https://github.com/abcang

Author: liijunwei

lib/active_model_serializers/adapter/attributes.rb

@@ -5,7 +5,11 @@ module Adapter
     class Attributes < Base
       def initialize(*)
         super
-        instance_options[:fieldset] ||= ActiveModel::Serializer::Fieldset.new(fields_to_fieldset(instance_options.delete(:fields)))
+
+        instance_options[:fieldset] ||= begin
+          fieldset = fields_to_fieldset(instance_options.delete(:fields))
+          fieldset && ActiveModel::Serializer::Fieldset.new(fieldset)
+        end
       end
 
       def serializable_hash(options = nil)

lib/active_model_serializers/adapter/json_api.rb

@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ def self.fragment_cache(cached_hash, non_cached_hash, root = true)
       def initialize(serializer, options = {})
         super
         @include_directive = JSONAPI::IncludeDirective.new(options[:include], allow_wildcard: true)
-        @fieldset = options[:fieldset] || ActiveModel::Serializer::Fieldset.new(options.delete(:fields))
+        @fieldset = options[:fieldset] || ((option_fields = options.delete(:fields)) && ActiveModel::Serializer::Fieldset.new(option_fields))
       end
 
       # {http://jsonapi.org/format/#crud Requests are transactional, i.e. success or failure}
@@ -348,7 +348,8 @@ def data_for(serializer, include_slice)
         data.tap do |resource_object|
           next if resource_object.nil?
           # NOTE(BF): the attributes are cached above, separately from the relationships, below.
-          requested_associations = fieldset.fields_for(resource_object[:type]) || '*'
+          requested_fields = fieldset && fieldset.fields_for(resource_object[:type])
+          requested_associations = requested_fields || '*'
           relationships = relationships_for(serializer, requested_associations, include_slice)
           resource_object[:relationships] = relationships if relationships.any?
         end