get_userdata() doesn't include meta values in 'data' property

[beautomated]

The following code worked in v3.2.1 and broke in v3.3. The custom meta value for "company" is empty, returning 'N/A' instead of what it should be: 'ABC Corporation'.

update_user_meta(get_current_user_id(), 'company', 'ABC Corporation');

$users = get_users(array('role' => 'administrator'));
foreach ($users as $user) {

$user = get_userdata($user->ID);
$company = (property_exists($user, 'company') && ($val = $user->company)) ? $val : 'N/A';
echo "You work for {$company}<br />";

}

If you use isset( $user->company ), it will work and be compatible with both WP 3.2 and 3.3.

For more info, see #15458

Thanks, Otto. This solution did work for two of our client projects. Note that I'm not comfortable with the notion of "Magic" properties, nor changes in the API without deprecation. I don't think any hidden properties are helpful to developers who don't already know about them. Nevertheless, I really appreciate the help and it did work for us. Thank you.

You're welcome, but I'm not Otto. :P