com.bigdata.rdf.internal

Interface IDatatypeURIResolver

All Known Implementing Classes:

LexiconRelation

public interface IDatatypeURIResolver

Specialized interface for resolving (and creating if necessary) datatype URIs. This interface requires access to a mutable view of the database since unknown URIs will be registered.

Author:

mrpersonick

See Also:

IExtension implementations do point lookups on lexicon

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
BigdataURI	resolve(org.openrdf.model.URI datatypeURI) Returns a fully resolved datatype URI with the IV set.

Method Detail

resolve

BigdataURI resolve(org.openrdf.model.URI datatypeURI)

Returns a fully resolved datatype URI with the IV set.

IExtensions handle encoding and decoding of inline literals for custom datatypes, however to do so they need the IV for the custom datatype. By passing an instance of this interface to the IExtension, it will be able to resolve its datatype URI(s) and cache them for future use.

The URIs used by IExtensions MUST be pre-declared by the Vocabulary.

This interface is implemented by the LexiconRelation.

Parameters:

uri - the term to resolve

Returns:

The fully resolved term

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the argument is null.

NoSuchVocabularyItem - if the argument is not part of the pre-declared Vocabulary.