[ruby-core:80523] [Ruby trunk Bug#13358] OpenStruct overriding allocate

Issue #13358 has been updated by Eregon (Benoit Daloze).

Backport changed from 2.2: DONTNEED, 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: DONTNEED to 2.2: DONTNEED, 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: REQUIRED

I believe this should be backported to 2.4, this is notably the version the OP used.

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Bug #13358: OpenStruct overriding allocate
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13358#change-64026

* Author: sitter (Harald Sitter)
* Status: Closed
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: Eregon (Benoit Daloze)
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: ruby 2.4.0p0 (2016-12-24 revision 57164) [x86_64-linux]
* Backport: 2.2: DONTNEED, 2.3: UNKNOWN, 2.4: REQUIRED
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In https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/15960b37e82ba60455c480b1c23e1567255d3e05 OpenStruct gained

~~~ruby
  class << self # :nodoc:
    alias allocate new
  end
~~~

Which is rather severely conflicting with expected behavior as `Class.allocate` is meant to [not call initialize](http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.4.0/Class.html#method-i-allocate). So, in fact, the change made `allocate` of `OpenStruct` do what `allocate` is asserting not to do :-/

For `OpenStruct` itself that isn't that big a deal, for classes inheriting from `OpenStruct` it breaks `allocate` though.

Example:

~~~ruby
require 'ostruct'

class A < OpenStruct
  def initialize(x, y = {})
    super(y)
  end
end

A.allocate
~~~

As `allocate` is alias'd to `new` in `OpenStruct` this will attempt to initialize `A` which will raise an `ArgumentError` because `A` cannot be initialized without arguments.

~~~
$ ruby x.rb
x.rb:4:in `initialize': wrong number of arguments (given 0, expected 1..2) (ArgumentError)
        from x.rb:9:in `new'
        from x.rb:9:in `<main>'
~~~

OpenStruct at the very least should document the fact that its allocate is behaving differently.
Ideally, `OpenStruct` should not alias allocate at all.


---Files--------------------------------
0001-ostruct.rb-improve-fix-for-OpenStruct.allocate-respo.patch (1.19 KB)


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