From 285d40d586951c10cbaa8a94d0110bbb9515328f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Krijnen <t.krijnen@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 16:18:48 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add to_string() method in ifcopenshell.file

---
 src/ifcwrap/IfcParseWrapper.i | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/ifcwrap/IfcParseWrapper.i b/src/ifcwrap/IfcParseWrapper.i
index c3985a6bc9..60ae5f5fa7 100644
--- a/src/ifcwrap/IfcParseWrapper.i
+++ b/src/ifcwrap/IfcParseWrapper.i
@@ -90,6 +90,12 @@ static IfcUtil::ArgumentType helper_fn_attribute_type(const IfcUtil::IfcBaseClas
 		f << (*$self);
 	}
 
+	std::string to_string() {
+		std::stringstream s;
+		s << (*$self);
+		return s.str();
+	}
+
 	std::vector<unsigned> entity_names() const {
 		std::vector<unsigned> keys;
 		keys.reserve(std::distance($self->begin(), $self->end()));