Make generic model compatible with PHP 8.1

[BafS]

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Description of the PR

Add #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] (https://php.watch/versions/8.1/ReturnTypeWillChange) to avoid deprecation notices.

Fixes #11820

cc. @dkarlovi and @mandrean

[EgorBurykin]

Hello, is there any way we can have it merged? It seems to be a valid workaround.

[mbouwer]

This would certainly help us. The PR seems valid, could this be merged into the codebase please?

[BafS]

@dkarlovi and @mandrean, would it be possible to merge this PR?

[BafS]

or @gracekarina maybe

[deguif]

Any news on this one, many projects are waiting to support PHP 8.1 as without this, it triggers deprecations.

[BafS]

@HugoMario maybe you could help me to merge the PR? The PHP maintainers do not seems to reply. Thanks in advance!

[deguif]

ping @frantuma maybe

[BafS]

@char0n @gracekarina @ponelat @frantuma could anyone help us to merge this PR?

[deguif]

@BafS in the meantime you can rebase the branch so that This branch is out-of-date with the base branch message disappears.

Let's hope that a core contributor will be able to have a look and merge this one soon as it's a real pain currently for PHP >= 8.1 and will become more and more annoying as PHP 8.2 is near to be released.

[ponelat]

Thanks for your patience folks, from my limited knowledge of PHP, ReturnTypeWillChange is backwards compatible with older versions of PHP? If so, I think it should be good to merge. @HugoMario if you're happy, I think lets get this merged.
And yes please, could you rebase @BafS

[deguif]

@ponelat thanks for your feedback.
You're right, #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] is backward compatible as attributes are not interpreted on PHP versions lower than 8.x.

[BafS]

@ponelat Thanks for your answer! PR synced (not sure why this is necessary as there is no conflicts), and yes as @deguif says, it is fully backward compatible.

[frantuma]

Thanks!

[BafS]

Thank you! Do you know when the next release will be tagged?

[BafS]

@frantuma any chance to create a new tag to have the release available to the world?