From 1fe8c26b1d43bd8908507aa4c48be486eced3c2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Matthias Pfefferle <pfefferle@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 19:38:19 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ignore prefixed attributes

---
 includes/activity/class-base-object.php | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/includes/activity/class-base-object.php b/includes/activity/class-base-object.php
index c8520ba..ee98411 100644
--- a/includes/activity/class-base-object.php
+++ b/includes/activity/class-base-object.php
@@ -462,6 +462,24 @@ class Base_Object {
 		}
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Magic function, to transform the object to string.
+	 *
+	 * @return string The object id.
+	 */
+	public function __toString() {
+		return $this->to_string();
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Function to transform the object to string.
+	 *
+	 * @return string The object id.
+	 */
+	public function to_string() {
+		return $this->get_id();
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Generic getter.
 	 *
@@ -575,6 +593,11 @@ class Base_Object {
 		$vars  = get_object_vars( $this );
 
 		foreach ( $vars as $key => $value ) {
+			// ignotre all _prefixed keys.
+			if ( '_' === substr( $key, 0, 1 ) ) {
+				continue;
+			}
+
 			// if value is empty, try to get it from a getter.
 			if ( ! isset( $value ) ) {
 				$value = call_user_func( array( $this, 'get_' . $key ) );