Ability to detect whether a property changed

[goldmont]

Hi,

It seems that it's not possible to detect which properties changed in order to run some actions. I was looking for something like Laravel's Model wasChanged method.

Use case:
I have a listener waiting for the SettingsSaved event. There are some actions that should run only when some specific properties change. However I'm not able to detect what changed so I'm forced to execute all actions over and over.

To me, it would be nice, for example, to be able to detect whether the property current_configuration has changed in order to dispatch a job.

Waiting for a reply, thanks for your efforts.

[goldmont]

Hi there,

Any feedback?

EDIT:

I wrote an abstract class that exposes two new methods: wasChanged and getOriginalValue

use Spatie\LaravelSettings\Settings;

abstract class BaseSettings extends Settings
{
    private array $changes = [];

    public function __set($name, $value)
    {
        if (isset($this->{$name}) && $value !== $this->{$name}) {
            $this->changes[$name] = $this->{$name};
        }
        parent::__set($name, $value);
    }

    public function refresh(): Settings
    {
        $this->changes = [];
        return parent::refresh();
    }

    public function wasChanged($name): bool
    {
        return isset($this->changes[$name]) && $this->changes[$name] !== $this->{$name};
    }

    public function getOriginalValue(string $name)
    {
        return $this->changes[$name] ?? null;
    }
}