| Author: | Matti J. Katila and Tuomas J. Lukka |
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| Date: | 2003-04-15T15:53:31Z |
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Swamp is our RDF API, designed for SPEED, SPEED and SPEED and also some flexibility. It is general and does not depend on the rest of Fenfire or the other projects (alph &c) at all. (the Obs interface and some such things are used, but they're trivial classes, not really dependencies).
See the peg swamp_rdf_api--tjl.
Fen is the central "model" class in fenfire. In addition to a swamp, it contains objects for dealing with nodes' contents and xanalogical indexing, for searching nodes with transclusions.
Here, there are dependencies to Alph with the xanalogical media.
A node (with content) is conceptually similar to a zzStructure cell. Not all RDF resources are nodes.
For example:
fen = new Fen(); fen.constgraph = fen.graph = new HashGraph(); fen.txt = new SimpleNodeContent(fen);
Or for speed you probably want caching:
fen.txt = new CachingNodeContent(new SimpleNodeContent(fen));
Adding triplet is easy, just:
fen.graph.add(sub, pred, obj)
If you want to add attribute (remove all other possibilities) you can use set1_11X instead:
fen.graph.set1_11X(sub, pred, obj)
< mudyc> hmm.. so how literal is done?
< mudyc> like the coords of a note?
<@tuomasl2> graph.add(foo,bar, Nodes.getStringLiteral(""+42))
< mudyc> and other direction?
<@tuomasl2> x = graph.find1_11X(foo,bar)
<@tuomasl2> ((Literal)x).getTextString()
(note that this will change at some point for efficiency: we shall accept Integer, Float &c objects as literals, I think -- tjl)
If you want a new identity, use shortcut method Nodes.N()
Nodes.N() if URN-5 Namespace also N(Namespace..)
If you know the uri you want, use
Nodes.get(uri)
There is no special "triplet" object in the API at the moment.
< mudyc> tuomasl2: how do i do a new triplet? <@tuomasl2> mudyc: if the last element is unique, set1_11X
otherwise you should use graph.add method:
fen.graph.add(sub, pred, onj);
See "How do I add a triplet" above.
< mudyc> after this: Iterator findN_11X_Iter(Object e0,Object e1) ; what does the iterator
return after iter.next()?
< mudyc> Triplet?
<@tuomasl2> no, no Triplet objects here yet
<@tuomasl2> it returns e2