getThing should support name as well as url like createThing does

[ianconsolata]

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Feature suggestion

I find myself creating named Things a lot, and relying on the client / server to set the base url to match a given resource when I save the resource. However, when I go to get those Things back out of the dataset, I can no longer solely use the name, I have to also use the base url to construct the full URL identifier for that Thing.

I often pass datasets around the code, and want to refer to Things in that dataset by name without also having to keep track of where that dataset was from. While I could do it myself using getSourceUrl, it seems like the SolidDataset should also have the information to just accept a string and do that conversion for me.

Expected functionality/enhancement

getThing can be called with either the name relative to the base IRI of the dataset, or the full url

getThing(dataset, "name")) === getThing(dataset,`${getSourceUrl(dataset)}#name`)

I would be happy to implement this if there is support for it, but it seems like it might be a controversial API choice, so wanted to open the issue to chat about it first. Personally, I think for pure feature parity, if createThing supports name, then getThing should as well.