Confusion about Permission Registration + Gate

[connormcmanustw]

I have recently shifted from an old Laravel 8 application up to Laravel 11, as well as updated this package to v6.

Upon inspection of what the old app was doing, after deep-diving into the base Laravel Gate class (Illuminate\Auth\Access\Gate.php), the PermissionRegistrar from this package was being included in the "beforeCallbacks" array of that GateClass. See below:

This is the dump output:

However, after shifting + updating the package, that dump is empty, and the PermissionRegistrar is no longer included. This is causing a different flow in the conditional, as seen in the snippet above:

$result = $this->callBeforeCallbacks(
    $user, $ability, $arguments
);

 if (is_null($result)) {
    $result = $this->callAuthCallback($user, $ability, $arguments);
}

... $result is null, since there are no beforeCallbacks array items (where the PermissionRegistrar previously was), and causing the if statement to hit, which, just based on what I'm seeing, is the issue.

This difference is causing a lot of my blade directives to fail, and I'm just trying to figure out what exactly I need to change.

[drbyte]

In v6, in PermissionRegistrar, we still call $gate->before(), where $gate is lazy-bound so it's resolved when required, not prematurely. Ref #2321
In prior versions we forced immediate resolving by using app(Gate::class)->before().