Cannot cast Optional property to int

[ludo237]

Hello everyone.
I've a simple DTO like the following example

class UpdateUserData extends Data
{
    public function __construct(
        #[Sometimes]
        public Optional|int $age,
     ){}
}

This cast doesn't like the fact that my Eloquent model has an internal cast for age as follow

class User extends Model
{
    protected $casts = [
        "age" => "integer",
    ];
}

If I try to use that dto this is the error that comes out

Object of class Spatie\LaravelData\Optional could not be converted to int
at vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Concerns/HasAttributes.php:753

I honestly have no clue what to do next, do I need to drop Eloquent cast? I would like to keep the Eloquent internal cast so my next idea could be to create a custom Eloquent cast for integers but that sounds weird.

UPDATE This seems to be a problem with Eloquent $casts in general not only with integers

[alexrififi]

If I try to use...

How?

[ludo237]

Right now I'm using laravel-data as DTO package so usually I have them inside my controller like so UpdateUserData::fromRequest($request). DTO has also the rules() method that I've omitted here for simplicity

[alexrififi]

What's in the fromRequest method?

[rubenvanassche]

Looks like somehow the property was not filled in, since the optional value was used. How did you create the data object?