Drop OpenStruct use from FakeApplicationSettings
What does this MR do?
OpenStruct has been pointed out as problematic to use. Ruby 3 added a good Caveats
section to the OpenStruct
rdoc explaining why its use is often not a good idea: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/3.0.0/OpenStruct.html#class-OpenStruct-label-Caveats
The problem this MR fixes is that the current implementation of FakeApplicationSettings
, which is derived from OpenStruct
, will actually break under Ruby 3, due to a change that materializes attributes passed through the constructor eagerly rather than lazily, which breaks inheritance contracts (such as the inclusion of module methods that are meant to override ostruct members.)
Context: #336754 (comment 646177087)
Therefore, this patch drops the use of OpenStruct
entirely in this class
in favor of some hand-rolled (but simple) meta-programming that mimics
OStruct behavior from 2.7 where relevant.
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