Factory::make ignores null values

[cnizzardini]

In CakePHP 4.2 and Fixture Factory 2.4. I am fairly certain you can reproduce this when using persist() to get the entity as well.

Steps to reproduce

$foo = FooFactory::make(['test' => null])->getEntity();
$foo->test = 'New';
var_dump($foo->getOriginal('test')); // this will output "New"

FooFactory:

    protected function setDefaultTemplate(): void {
        $this->setDefaultData(function (Generator $faker) {
            return [];
        });
    }

Expected Result

$foo->getOriginal('test') outputs NULL

More Context

This bug is not present with the following setup in the FooFactory class:

    protected function setDefaultTemplate(): void {
        $this->setDefaultData(function (Generator $faker) {
            return [
                'test' => null,
            ];
        });
    }

With this the following code works as expected:

$foo = FooFactory::make()->getEntity();
$foo->test = 'New';
var_dump($foo->getOriginal('test')); // this will output NULL

I hope this is clear.

[pabloelcolombiano]

I have pushed the commit above to reproduce the issue, but unsuccessfully (see the pipe here).

Could you identify the difference between your setup and the ones in the package's test suite?

[cnizzardini]

@pabloelcolombiano I am curious if you attempted reproducing this in an actual application? I also updated the issue with more code to reproduce the issue.