I got an 'interesting' TypeError that (should) not have happened ?

[rayanlevert]

Hello,

The message of the Fatal Error is actually pretty disturbing, makes me wonder if is this not an internal PHP bug ? (would be crazy right)

Using Phalcon 5.9.3 - php8.4.13 - debian 11

So, here's the model, (removing all the interesting methods/properties)

class Model extends \Phalcon\Mvc\Model
{
    /**
     * @Column(column="property", type="int", nullable=false, default=0)
     */
    public int $property = 0;
}

And then what I'm trying to achieve, is passing an array with property in it, of a integer value, classic.

But the thing is, I'm calling array_walk to the array before.

$array = ['property' => 1, 'property2' => 2];

// This is not the actual callback, but for the example it works as well
array_walk($array, fn (mixed $value) => $value);

And I'm initializing the model, and I get the Fatal Error (prepare yourselves)

Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: Cannot assign int to property Model::$property of type int in /app/src/Tasks/MainTask.php on line 39

Cannot assign int to property of type int, that's the weird part, right ?

As soon as I traverse the array by reference, I got the error, another way for example

foreach ($array as &$value) {}

new Model($array); -> fatal error

I've tried with string, or float, same error.

The error is linked to the typed property, if I remove the int (public $property = 0) - it works.

I've tried with the mixed type, same error - Cannot assign int to property App\Models\Test::$property of type mixed (which should never happen, mixed can assign every type).

Well, this is not a bug or something, we can just not use reference nor use array_walk, but I couldn't reproduce it anywhere else than the model assign.

Have fun coding - thanks for reading.