Config Repository Contract does not define typed retrieval methods

[mah484]

Laravel Version

12.41.1

PHP Version

8.2.29

Database Driver & Version

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Description

Recently, I had an issue with two different Laravel packages.

The yajra/laravel-datatables made a recent change to conform to Laravel best practices and use the Config facade.

We override the default Config Repository with the illuminatech/config package.

This implements the contract but the contract does not include the typed configuration retrieval methods as mentioned in the documentation.

Perhaps in the next major release the contract should also enforce these methods?

Steps To Reproduce

Call Config::array() when overriding the Config Repository class.