[FR] Assert property initialized

[simPod]

Would it make sense to add a new assertion that would check that property is initialized?

[Nyholm]

Oh,
How would that assertion look like?

[simPod]

Since we can't access the property before we know it's initialized I see only this way

class X {
    public ?string $a;
}

function isInit(object $object, string $prop) : void {
    $rp = new ReflectionProperty($object::class, $prop);
    
    
    if($rp->isInitialized($object)) {
        return;
        
    }
    
    throw new Exception('Not init');
}

$x = new X;
$x->a = null;
isInit($x, 'a');

$x = new X;
isInit($x, 'a');

[ruudk]

Maybe instead of this, it could be written as Assert::true(isset($a->id)); ?

[zerkms]

@ruudk have you tried it? isset cannot distinguish between not not defined variable, not initialised property and a null value.

[ruudk]

@zerkms You're right.

However, in my use case, using Doctrine entities with autoincrement ids, this was fine as I just want to make sure there is a value.

class Entity {
    /**
     * @ORM\Column(name="id", type="integer")
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
     */
    private int $id;
    
    public function getId(): int
    {
        Assert::true(isset($this->id));
        
        return $this->id;
    }
}

[zerkms]

@ruudk Assert::notNull($this->id);

[ruudk]

@zerkms private int $id cannot ever be null. PHPStan: Call to static method Webmozart\Assert\Assert::notNull() with int will always evaluate to true.

[zerkms]

@ruudk if it can never be null - why do you check it with isset? Your typing lies then and phpstan should report that as well.

[simPod]

It's a long time since I opened the FR and I did not find the use case I needed it for. But yes, one can't use isset(), the only way it currently through reflection AFAIK. That's why there's public ?string $a; in my example.