request.getVar not populated with GET parameters | unexpected behavior

[reedjones]

According to the docs:

"The getVar() method will pull from $_REQUEST, so will return any data from $_GET, $POST, or $_COOKIE."

This unexpectedly changes, sometimes it has the data sometimes it doesn't, seemingly for no reason...

CodeIgniter 4 version

v4.0.4

Affected module(s)
Incoming Request Class

Expected behavior, and steps to reproduce if appropriate

In a controller:
(the url contains GET parameter example.com?value=1)

request.getVar() should contain: value,1

public function index(){
       $whatever = $this->request->getVar("value");
       // $whatever should equal 1 but it is null   (sometimes)

      $thisworks = $this->request->getGet();
      $whatever = $thisworks['value']; 
     // $whatever is equal to 1   (this always works) 
}

Context
tested on windows 10 and ubuntu

[paulbalandan]

It is hard to confirm this issue if it occurs "sometimes". You need to give us at least a reproducible test script that will imitate this occasional behavior. Otherwise, this cannot be considered as a real bug.

[luispastendev]

I did a quick test on the problem but everything seems to work fine, here is a related issue. #4381

[reedjones]

I did a quick test on the problem but everything seems to work fine, here is a related issue
It is hard to confirm this issue if it occurs "sometimes".

yeah that's the strange thing, in my project I have calls to getVar() all over the place, sometimes it fails, sometimes it doesn't, I had to basically go around the whole project and replace getVar with getGet..

I've noticed:
it seems to work if the var is in POST, doesn't work if the var is in GET
I can't seem to reproduce it on my local environment (windows ), only seems to happen on my server (linux)

I'll try to see if I can reproduce it locally and get more info

[paulbalandan]

I believed this has been fixed by #4493