Event for non-existant product attribute values

[JosephMaxwell]

It would be very nice to have the feature in the Mage_Catalog_Model_Product file to override Varien_Object's getData method (or __call for that matter), and dispatch an event if no data is found.

Case in point: I don't like to rewrite the Mage_Catalog_Model_Product class if at all possible. However, if a customer wanted to get some custom totals from a product, I could either do it in the catalog_product_load_after, or, for better performance, essentially add a new value to be retrieved in certain cases. This would be tied to an event like: catalog_product_getvalue_awesome, and I could perform my calculation. It would then update the internal data array with the new information.

[magento-team]

Hello. Thanks for this idea unfortunately we need to reject it. While powerful it brings possible instability and performance degradation.