Accessing sprite data?

Phaser 3
1

Hi Everyone, I’m trying to access the data of a Sprite, but it’s coming up null in these situations:

export default class Player extends Phaser.Physics.Arcade.Sprite {
  constructor(scene, x, y) {
   console.log(this.data) //null

and

this.player = new Player(this, spawnPoint.x, spawnPoint.y);
console.log(this.player.data); //null

Would anyone be able to tell me how or when to access it? I’d love to be able to set data properties on sprite creation in the class constructor.

2

data :Phaser.Data.DataManager

A Data Manager. It allows you to store, query and get key/value paired information specific to this Game Object. null by default. Automatically created if you use getData or setData or setDataEnabled .

So null seems correct.
If you want the class members, try logging without .data.

3

This, specifically, is the part of the documentation that’s significant here. If you want to use Phaser’s built-in data manager, use getData and setData on the sprite instead of accessing data directly.