__toString()

It is supported by "print" and for internal extensions such as SimpleXML
which require this.
Also in Java toString() isn't called automagically in every place so I
wouldn't call it useless.

Andi

At 08:56 AM 12/14/2003 +0100, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:

The following code from PHPUnit stopped working after the recent changes
to __toString()

 protected function printDefectTrace(PHPUnit_Framework_TestFailure
 $defect) {
     print $defect->thrownException() . "\n";

     print PHPUnit_Runner_BaseTestRunner::getFilteredStack(
       $defect->thrownException()
     );
 }

The

print $defect->thrownException() . "\n";

line worked fine before and printed the result of

$defect->thrownException()->__toString()

Is this the intended behaviour?

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It is supported by "print" and for internal extensions such as
SimpleXML which require this.

How is it supported by "print" when

print $defect->thrownException()

does not work but the object returned from thrownException() has a
__toString() method?

Hopefully, this still works (don't have a recent PHP5 build to try):

print (string)$defect->thrownException();

The explicit cast also addresses this case:

print (string)$defect->thrownException() . "\n";

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