> On Jan 15, 2020, at 9:52 AM, Benjamin Eberlei <kontakt@beberlei.de> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> until now there was no way on ReflectionProperty to easily find out if a
> value has a default value and what that default value is. Essentially the
> way was indirectly through ReflectionClass::getDefaultProperties().
>
> In combination with typed properties and Reflection use cases (for code
> generation for example) it is interesting to know when a property has no
> default value, because accessing it through
> ReflectionProperty::getValue($object) would otherwise throw a "property
> unitialized" error.
>
> I have added a PR adding these two functions and looking for more feedback
> from interested parties:
>
> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/5071
>
> This addition is small so that I believe an RFC is not necessary, given
> that it is more "missing functionality" that should have been there before
+1. I have previously run into a use-case for this.
-Mike
