diff --git a/include/ndn-cpp/interest.hpp b/include/ndn-cpp/interest.hpp
index e8a498b..d5d8e49 100644
--- a/include/ndn-cpp/interest.hpp
+++ b/include/ndn-cpp/interest.hpp
@@ -303,6 +303,14 @@
   }
   
   /**
+   * Encode the name according to the "NDN URI Scheme".  If there are interest selectors, append "?" and
+   * added the selectors as a query string.  For example "/test/name?ndn.ChildSelector=1".
+   * @return The URI string.
+   */
+  std::string
+  toUri() const;
+  
+  /**
    * Set the interestStruct to point to the components in this interest, without copying any memory.
    * WARNING: The resulting pointers in interestStruct are invalid after a further use of this object which could reallocate memory.
    * @param interestStruct a C ndn_Interest struct where the name components array is already allocated.