To string method

[conjectwan]

Hello,

If we need to have a human-readable version of a resource, we pass by the __toString method.

I'm asking myself about the pertinence to return the resource uri. Indeed, the uri is not very human-readable. That would not be preferable to return a rdfs:label if it is defined ?

Thank you in advance.

[njh]

Good point.

There is a ->label() method that does this, and falls back to other properties if no rdfs:label is available.

[conjectwan]

Thank you for your response. The problem is that today, we use a tierce library that casts an object into a string. So we can not pass by an other function that __toString or profit of the label function in this case.

[k00ni]

Is there anything to add here? If not, we should close this issue and mark it as "wont-fix".

[njh]

Yeah, I think that __toString() has been returning URIs for so long, that it is likely that people depend upon that behaviour.

@conjectwan sorry, this was a very long time ago, so you have probably moved on, but you could subclass EasyRdf\Resource and then change the default class for resources using EasyRdf\TypeMapper\setDefaultResourceClass().