Settings loading as null unless I access them first.

[argonzalez2016]

When I load a settings class, my settings are null until I access at least one of the properties first. How do I fix this?

Example:
$setting = app(SettingClass::class); dump(empty($setting->someSetting))
This outputs True.

However when i do it this way
$setting = app(SettingClass::class) echo $setting->someSetting; dump(empty($setting->someSetting));
I get the proper value: False.

Any help would be appreciated!

[argonzalez2016]

Actually this only happens when I use empty(). When I use is_null() everything works as intended.

[rubenvanassche]

Hi @argonzalez2016,

Good catch, we don't load settings until they are needed, so in this case empty was correctly true because settings weren't loaded. This is fixed in version 2.1.9.