From b7ceae1761de6839e37b70a65177e702b1b4a38f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Irons <tom.irons@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:18:48 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] [8.x] Allow nullable columns for AsArrayObject/AsCollection
 casts (#36526)

* Update AsArrayObject.php

* Update AsCollection.php

* return null

* return null

* formatting
---
 src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Casts/AsArrayObject.php | 2 +-
 src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Casts/AsCollection.php  | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Casts/AsArrayObject.php b/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Casts/AsArrayObject.php
index 8d950e2daff4..a939e8acdbdb 100644
--- a/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Casts/AsArrayObject.php
+++ b/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Casts/AsArrayObject.php
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ public static function castUsing(array $arguments)
         return new class implements CastsAttributes {
             public function get($model, $key, $value, $attributes)
             {
-                return new ArrayObject(json_decode($attributes[$key], true));
+                return isset($attributes[$key]) ? new ArrayObject(json_decode($attributes[$key], true)) : null;
             }
 
             public function set($model, $key, $value, $attributes)
diff --git a/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Casts/AsCollection.php b/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Casts/AsCollection.php
index e96834f6e4d3..c2d567b504f7 100644
--- a/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Casts/AsCollection.php
+++ b/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Casts/AsCollection.php
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ public static function castUsing(array $arguments)
         return new class implements CastsAttributes {
             public function get($model, $key, $value, $attributes)
             {
-                return new Collection(json_decode($attributes[$key], true));
+                return isset($attributes[$key]) ? new Collection(json_decode($attributes[$key], true)) : null;
             }
 
             public function set($model, $key, $value, $attributes)