Realm object property misses its value, but I can see it when printing the whole object

Question

I stumbled upon a weird thing when trying to fetch an object from my Realm (iOS, Swift, Realm version 0.98.2)

print("speaker:")
print(RealmProvider.appRealm.objects(FavoriteSpeaker).first!)

Correctly dumps my object in the console:

speaker:
FavoriteSpeaker {
    name = Ashley Nelson-Hornstein;
}

But when I try to get the name property's value:

print("speaker name:")
print(RealmProvider.appRealm.objects(FavoriteSpeaker).first!.name)

I get an empty string 🤔

speaker name:

The four lines are together in my model's init method

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Update 1: I found an answer that suggests that you merely don't see the values when printed in the Console: Realm object is missing all properties except primaryKey but I also tried displaying the name property via an alert view and that is also empty.

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Update 2: Just to make sure that everything happens sequentially and on the same thread I did this:

let favorite1 = FavoriteSpeaker()
favorite1.name = "Debbie Downer"

try! RealmProvider.appRealm.write {
    RealmProvider.appRealm.deleteAll()
    RealmProvider.appRealm.add(favorite1)
}

print("speaker:")
print(RealmProvider.appRealm.objects(FavoriteSpeaker.self).first!)

print("speaker name:")
print(RealmProvider.appRealm.objects(FavoriteSpeaker.self).first!.name)

But the result is the same - printing name prints an empty string

Answer 1

The name property is probably not declared as dynamic, which leads to it reading the nil value stored on the object itself rather than reading the data from the Realm.