This cherry-picks from #1490 to address an issue that came up in #1511.
The function dyn.SetByPath requires intermediate values to be present. If they are not, it returns an error that it cannot index a map. This is not an issue on main, where the intermediate maps are always created, even if they are not present in the dynamic configuration tree. As of #1511, we'll no longer populate empty maps for empty structs if they are not explicitly set (i.e., a non-nil pointer). This change writes a bool pointer to avoid this issue altogether.
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This cherry-picks from #1490 to address an issue that came up in #1511.
The function
dyn.SetByPathrequires intermediate values to be present. If they are not, it returns an error that it cannot index a map. This is not an issue on main, where the intermediate maps are always created, even if they are not present in the dynamic configuration tree. As of #1511, we'll no longer populate empty maps for empty structs if they are not explicitly set (i.e., a non-nil pointer). This change writes a bool pointer to avoid this issue altogether.Tests
Unit tests pass.