Hey,
Why this is better?
Because it does not force knowledge of a specific serialization format onto
the entity object and does not prevent constructing it from its
composited-in parts.
Note that this is about the PHP codebase of Wikibase. It has no impact on
the users of the software, such as
Wikidata.org.
Cheers
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