How to properly use Attribute Casting?

Question

Laravel

Hello. I found in the documentation the possibility, if I understood correctly, to cast the model properties to the desired types.
https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/eloquent-mutators#att...
But it doesn't work when the column is null. I want instead of null, for example, to get an empty string.

Answer 1

This is not a casting task, this is an accessor / mutator task , if you want it to work out of the box.
Well, or you can refine the casting mechanism.