[Feature Request]: Guarded attributes when $guarded is changed via self initializing trait

[dsazup]

Feature Description

I have Unguarded trait that I sometimes add to models so it keeps them clean, it looks like so:

trait Unguarded
{
    public function initializeUnguarded(): void
    {
        $this->guarded = [];
    }
}

class Person extends Model
{
    use Unguarded;
}

Obviously if I do

protected $guarded = [];

then it all works. Would it be possible to make the plugin recognise this?

[gorbunov]

Thank you for taking the time to write this request!

Main problem is that plugin itself is static analysis tool, it doesn't run PHP, so there is no way to do conditional runtime logic in the users codebase.

There is following options:
Wrap model updates into ::unguarded() call:

YourModel::unguarded(function () {
    YourModel::updateOrCreate(...);
});

inspection will check code tree in file to check for unguarding behavior.

Call ->forceCreate() methods that ignore guard checks (and doesn't trigger inspection)

You can ignore particular models, or fields of models in Laravel Idea Inspection Settings:

Or disable this inspection all together if it suit poorly into your development cycle.