From 2cc338319a522a9ec8fdcd69d04a8551499f77ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Touhidur Rahman <abir.ruet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 00:14:20 +0600
Subject: [PATCH] pkp/pkp-lib#10690 fixed considering multilingual attr be null
 when not set at all

---
 classes/core/traits/ModelWithSettings.php | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/classes/core/traits/ModelWithSettings.php b/classes/core/traits/ModelWithSettings.php
index 36225489f5b..3a77bbeb44c 100644
--- a/classes/core/traits/ModelWithSettings.php
+++ b/classes/core/traits/ModelWithSettings.php
@@ -141,7 +141,9 @@ public function getLocalizedData(string $data, ?string $locale = null): mixed
 
         $multilingualProp = $this->getAttribute($data);
 
-        return $this->getBestLocalizedData($multilingualProp, $locale);
+        return $multilingualProp 
+            ? $this->getBestLocalizedData($multilingualProp, $locale)
+            : null;
     }
 
     /**