psalm/docs/running_psalm/issues/RedundantPropertyInitializationCheck.md

RedundantPropertyInitializationCheck

Unitialized properties are statically hard to analyze. To prevent mistakes, Psalm will enforce that all properties should be initialized.

It does that through PropertyNotSetInConstructor and MissingConstructor.

Psalm will then assume every property in the codebase is initialized.

Doing that allows it to report missing initializations as well as this issue.

This issue is emitted when checking isset() on a non-nullable property. Because every property is assumed to be initialized, this check is redundant

If your project rely on having uninitialized properties, it is advised to suppress this issue, as well as PropertyNotSetInConstructor and MissingConstructor.

<?php
    class A {
        public string $bar;
        public function getBar() : string {
            if (isset($this->bar)) {
                return $this->bar;
            }
            return "hello";
        }
    }