Calling $this->Property or $this->obj('Property') in DataObject overloaded method getProperty() results in [Notice] Undefined property: DataObject::$Property.

Interesting fact: Calling $this->Nonexistent (where Nonexistent is any undefined property) doesn't result in any Notice/Error whatsoever.

Example:

class News extends DataObject {
  public static $db = Array(
    'Title'  => 'Text',
    'Content'  => 'HTMLText',
  );

  public function getTitle() {
    Debug::dump($this->Content); //works fine as we are not in getContent() method
    Debug::dump($this->AnythingUndefined); //doesn't cause any trouble, returns empty string
    return $this->Title; //source of the problem
  }
}

using SilverStripe 3.0.5

That is PHP protecting you from infinite recursion, since $this->Title would end up calling $this->getTitle(), which would access $this->Title and call $this->getTitle() and so in.

To get the actual value, use $this->getField('Title'); Likewise, in setTitle($value), you'd use $this->setField('Title', $value);

Thanks for the answer, it truly works, but it has a flaw. getField('Property') returns raw data, which means I can't do this for example:

public function getDate() {
    return $this->getField('Date')->Day();
}

Nevertheless tutorial at http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/topics/datamodel (section Overloading) is misleading and should be corrected imo.

Just bumping this. It seems this is still the case in 3.2