info.sswap.api.model
Interface PDG

All Superinterfaces:

SSWAPDocument, SSWAPModel

All Known Implementing Classes:

PDGImpl

public interface PDG
extends SSWAPDocument

A Provider Description Graph (PDG) describes a SSWAP semantic web service Provider. SSWAPProviders host one or more SSWAP services, each described by its own Resource Description Graph ( RDG). Usually, an individual, institution, or web site has only a single PDG, accessible to any one on the web by dereferencing the URI of the SSWAPProvider.

For more on the protocol, see SSWAP Protocol.

Author:

Blazej Bulka , Damian Gessler

See Also:

RDG, RIG, RRG, RQG, SSWAPProvider, SSWAPResource

Method Summary

SSWAPProvider	createProvider(java.net.URI providerURI) Creates a new SSWAPProvider in this PDG
SSWAPProvider	getProvider() Gets the provider described in this PDG.
java.util.Collection<RDG>	getRDGs() Gets all RDGs pointed to by a sswap:providesResource statement in this PDG

Methods inherited from interface info.sswap.api.model.SSWAPDocument

createAnonymousDatatype, createAnonymousType, createIndividual, createIndividual, createIntersectionOf, createList, createLiteral, createTypedLiteral, createUnionOf, getDatatype, getPredicate, getType, newIndividual, newIndividual

Methods inherited from interface info.sswap.api.model.SSWAPModel

addImport, checkProfile, dereference, dereference, doClosure, getDocument, getImports, getInputStream, getNsPrefixMap, getReasoningService, getTypeSignature, getURI, isDereferenced, removeImport, removeNsPrefix, serialize, serialize, setNsPrefix, validate

Method Detail

getProvider

SSWAPProvider getProvider()

Gets the provider described in this PDG.

Returns:

SSWAPProvider object (dereferenced, since the main purpose of the PDG is to describe that provider).

createProvider

SSWAPProvider createProvider(java.net.URI providerURI)

Creates a new SSWAPProvider in this PDG

Parameters:

providerURI - the URI of the provider (which should be the same as the URI of the PDG)

Returns:

the newly created provider

getRDGs

java.util.Collection<RDG> getRDGs()
                                  throws DataAccessException

Gets all RDGs pointed to by a sswap:providesResource statement in this PDG

Returns:

a collection of RDGs

Throws:

DataAccessException - if an error should occur while accesing the RDG data