I am getting a taxonomy through a REST plugin, and I return it as an array keyed by id, since I also have to access it by id. But when I display the values in an HTML select, I have to order it by weight, so I am ordering it in a javascript function. I got unexpected results, and I traced it to the fact that Term::weight() apparently returns a string rather than an int, or at least this is what this test code shows:
use DrupaltaxonomyEntityTerm; [...] $term = Term::load(407) ; echo $term->name->value, " has weight ", $term->getWeight(), PHP_EOL ; echo "and it is a ", gettype($term->getWeight()), PHP_EOL ; The above code is in a drush script, and when I run it I get
# /var/www/mysite/svil/vendor/bin/drush scr test.php Location to be defined has weight 0 and it is a string The documentation for Term::getWeight() claims that it returns an integer. I looked at the code, but the implementation is simply
public function getWeight() { return $this->get('weight')->value; } which says nothing about the type of the result.
Of course I can simply apply intval(), but I would like to know what’s going on here.
