Interface InferencerConnection

All Superinterfaces:
AutoCloseable, NotifyingSailConnection, SailConnection
All Known Implementing Classes:
AbstractForwardChainingInferencerConnection, DedupingInferencerConnection, ElasticsearchStoreConnection, ExtensibleStoreConnection, InferencerConnectionWrapper, LimitedSizeNativeStoreConnection, LmdbStoreConnection, MemoryStoreConnection, NativeStoreConnection, SailSourceConnection, SchemaCachingRDFSInferencerConnection

public interface InferencerConnection extends NotifyingSailConnection
An extension of the SailConnection interface offering methods that can be used by inferencers to store and remove inferred statements.
  • Method Details

    • addInferredStatement

      boolean addInferredStatement(Resource subj, IRI pred, Value obj, Resource... contexts) throws SailException
      Adds an inferred statement to a specific context.
      Parameters:
      subj - The subject of the statement to add.
      pred - The predicate of the statement to add.
      obj - The object of the statement to add.
      contexts - The context(s) to add the statement to. Note that this parameter is a vararg and as such is optional. If no contexts are supplied the method operates on the entire repository.
      Throws:
      SailException - If the statement could not be added.
      IllegalStateException - If the connection has been closed.
    • removeInferredStatement

      boolean removeInferredStatement(Resource subj, IRI pred, Value obj, Resource... contexts) throws SailException
      Removes an inferred statement from a specific context.
      Parameters:
      subj - The subject of the statement that should be removed.
      pred - The predicate of the statement that should be removed.
      obj - The object of the statement that should be removed.
      contexts - The context(s) from which to remove the statements. Note that this parameter is a vararg and as such is optional. If no contexts are supplied the method operates on the entire repository.
      Throws:
      SailException - If the statement could not be removed.
      IllegalStateException - If the connection has been closed.
    • clearInferred

      void clearInferred(Resource... contexts) throws SailException
      Removes all inferred statements from the specified/all contexts. If no contexts are specified the method operates on the entire repository.
      Parameters:
      contexts - The context(s) from which to remove the statements. Note that this parameter is a vararg and as such is optional. If no contexts are supplied the method operates on the entire repository.
      Throws:
      SailException - If the statements could not be removed.
      IllegalStateException - If the connection has been closed.
    • flushUpdates

      void flushUpdates() throws SailException
      Flushes any pending updates to be processed and the resulting changes to be reported to registered SailConnectionListeners.
      Throws:
      SailException - If the updates could not be processed.
      IllegalStateException - If the connection has been closed.