Access protected property when extending controller in OctoberCMS

Question

I am struggling with extending a Plugin in OctoberCMS. I need to access a protected property, so I wanted to create a new getter, that would return the value, but it always returns NULL

Here an example code of the controller (I cannot extend it here, as this is a 3rd party plugin):

class Records extends Controller
{
    protected $some_value;
}

And this is how I implement it in the bootmethod of my Plugin:

Records::extend(function($controller) {
    $controller->addDynamicMethod('myValue', function() use ($controller) {
        return $controller->some_value;
    });
});

But this does not work. When I dump the $controller I get sth like this:

MyNamespace\MyPlugin\Controllers\Records {#1616 ▼
  #some_value: "1"
...

But when I want to return the value, it is null.

Answer 1

There is one hack that I used once. I was also facing the same issue

ref: https://tutorialmeta.com/octobercms/how-access-private-property-october-cms

// class
class Records extends Controller
{
    protected $some_value;
    // or private $some_value;
}

// in pugin
use Symfony\Component\VarDumper\Cloner\VarCloner;

Records::extend(function($controller) {
    $controller->addDynamicMethod('myValue', function() use ($controller) {
        $cloner = new VarCloner;
        $cloned = $cloner->cloneVar($controller);
        return $cloned->some_value;
    });
});

It should do the trick and you can access variables.

please comment if any doubt