Nested Eloquent casting with default values?

[francoism90]

I'm following this example: https://stefanzweifel.dev/posts/2023/10/29/spatielaravel-data-is-probably-the-best-way-to-store-settings-in-your-laravel-app

However this results in:

Spatie\LaravelData\Exceptions\CannotCreateData  Could not create `Domain\Users\DataObjects\UserSettings`: the constructor requires 1 parameters, 0 given. Parameters missing: general

This is what I'm using to get the default settings:

protected static function createSettings(User $model): void
    {
        $model->forceFill([
            'settings' => static::defaultSettings(),
        ]);

        $model->saveOrFail(); // exception here
    }

    public static function defaultSettings(): UserSettings
    {
        return UserSettings::from([
            'general' => new UserGeneralSettings(),
        ]);
    }

What I'm I doing wrong here?

Thanks

[francoism90]

Hmm, adding Optional to `UserGeneralSettingsz works, but shouldn't it inherit this by default?

[francoism90]

Solution:

<?php

namespace App\Data;

use App\Domain\Support\Enums\ThemeApperance;
use Spatie\LaravelData\Data;

class UserSettings extends Data
{
	public UserGeneralSettings $general;

    public UserNotificationSettings $notification;
    
	public UserApperanceSettings $apperance;

    public function __construct(
 		//
    ) {
        $this->general = new UserGeneralSettings();

		$this->notification = new UserNotificationSettings();

		$this->apperance = new UserApperanceSettings();
    }
}