com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model
Interface Alt

All Superinterfaces:
Container, FrontsNode, RDFNode, Resource

public interface Alt
extends Container

An RDF Alternative container.

This interface defines methods for accessing RDF Alternative resources. These methods operate on the RDF statements contained in a model. The Alternative implementation may cache state from the underlying model, so objects should not be added to or removed from the Alternative by directly manipulating its properties, whilst the Alternative is being accessed through this interface.

When a member is deleted from an Alternative using this interface, or an iterator returned through this interface, all the other members with higher ordinals are renumbered using an implementation dependendent algorithm.

This interface provides methods supporting typed literals. This means that methods are provided which will translate a built in type, or an object to an RDF Literal. This translation is done by invoking the toString() method of the object, or its built in equivalent. The reverse translation is also supported. This is built in for built in types. Factory objects, provided by the application, are used for application objects.

This interface provides methods for supporting enhanced resources. An enhanced resource is a resource to which the application has added behaviour. RDF containers are examples of enhanced resources built in to this package. Enhanced resources are supported by encapsulating a resource created by an implementation in another class which adds the extra behaviour. Factory objects are used to construct such enhanced resources.

Version:
Release='$Name: $' Revision='$Revision: 1.1 $' Date='$Date: 2009/06/29 08:55:38 $'
Author:
bwm

Method Summary
 RDFNode getDefault()
          Return the default value for this resource.
 Alt getDefaultAlt()
          Return the default value for this resource.
 Bag getDefaultBag()
          Return the default value for this resource.
 boolean getDefaultBoolean()
          Return the default value for this resource.
 byte getDefaultByte()
          Return the default value for this resource.
 char getDefaultChar()
          Return the default value for this resource.
 double getDefaultDouble()
          Return the default value for this resource.
 float getDefaultFloat()
          Return the default value for this resource.
 int getDefaultInt()
          Return the default value for this resource.
 java.lang.String getDefaultLanguage()
          Return the language of the default value for this resource.
 Literal getDefaultLiteral()
          Return the default value for this resource.
 long getDefaultLong()
          Return the default value for this resource.
 Resource getDefaultResource()
          Return the default value for this resource.
 Resource getDefaultResource(ResourceF f)
          Deprecated. 
 Seq getDefaultSeq()
          Return the default value for this resource.
 short getDefaultShort()
          Return the default value for this resource.
 java.lang.String getDefaultString()
          Return the default value for this resource.
 Container remove(Statement s)
          Remove a value from the container.
 Alt setDefault(boolean o)
          Set the default value of this container.
 Alt setDefault(char o)
          Set the default value of this container.
 Alt setDefault(double o)
          Set the default value of this container.
 Alt setDefault(float o)
          Set the default value of this container.
 Alt setDefault(long o)
          Set the default value of this container.
 Alt setDefault(java.lang.Object o)
          Set the default value of this container.
 Alt setDefault(RDFNode o)
          Set the default value of this container.
 Alt setDefault(java.lang.String o)
          Set the default value of this container.
 Alt setDefault(java.lang.String o, java.lang.String l)
          Set the default value of this container.
 
Methods inherited from interface com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Container
add, add, add, add, add, add, add, add, add, contains, contains, contains, contains, contains, contains, contains, contains, contains, isAlt, isBag, isSeq, iterator, size
 
Methods inherited from interface com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Resource
abort, addLiteral, addLiteral, addLiteral, addLiteral, addLiteral, addLiteral, addLiteral, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, begin, commit, equals, getId, getLocalName, getNameSpace, getProperty, getPropertyResourceValue, getRequiredProperty, getURI, hasLiteral, hasLiteral, hasLiteral, hasLiteral, hasLiteral, hasLiteral, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasURI, inModel, listProperties, listProperties, removeAll, removeProperties, toString
 
Methods inherited from interface com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.RDFNode
as, asLiteral, asResource, canAs, getModel, isAnon, isLiteral, isResource, isURIResource, visitWith
 
Methods inherited from interface com.hp.hpl.jena.graph.FrontsNode
asNode
 

Method Detail

setDefault

Alt setDefault(RDFNode o)
Set the default value of this container.

Parameters:
o - The value to be set.
Returns:
This object to permit cascading calls.

setDefault

Alt setDefault(boolean o)
Set the default value of this container.

Parameters:
o - The value to be set.
Returns:
This object to permit cascading calls.

setDefault

Alt setDefault(long o)
Set the default value of this container.

Parameters:
o - The value to be set.
Returns:
This object to permit cascading calls.

setDefault

Alt setDefault(char o)
Set the default value of this container.

Parameters:
o - The value to be set.
Returns:
This object to permit cascading calls.

setDefault

Alt setDefault(float o)
Set the default value of this container.

Parameters:
o - The value to be set.
Returns:
This object to permit cascading calls.

setDefault

Alt setDefault(double o)
Set the default value of this container.

Parameters:
o - The value to be set.
Returns:
This object to permit cascading calls.

setDefault

Alt setDefault(java.lang.String o)
Set the default value of this container.

Parameters:
o - The value to be set.
Returns:
This object to permit cascading calls.

setDefault

Alt setDefault(java.lang.String o,
               java.lang.String l)
Set the default value of this container.

Parameters:
o - The value to be set.
Returns:
This object to permit cascading calls.

setDefault

Alt setDefault(java.lang.Object o)
Set the default value of this container.

Parameters:
o - The value to be set.
Returns:
This object to permit cascading calls.

getDefault

RDFNode getDefault()
Return the default value for this resource.

Returns:
the default value for this resource.

getDefaultResource

Resource getDefaultResource()
Return the default value for this resource.

Returns:
the default value for this resource interpreted as the return type.

getDefaultLiteral

Literal getDefaultLiteral()
Return the default value for this resource.

Returns:
the default value for this resource interpreted as the return type.

getDefaultBoolean

boolean getDefaultBoolean()
Return the default value for this resource.

Returns:
the default value for this resource interpreted as the return type.

getDefaultByte

byte getDefaultByte()
Return the default value for this resource.

Returns:
the default value for this resource interpreted as the return type.

getDefaultShort

short getDefaultShort()
Return the default value for this resource.

Returns:
the default value for this resource interpreted as the return type.

getDefaultInt

int getDefaultInt()
Return the default value for this resource.

Returns:
the default value for this resource interpreted as the return type.

getDefaultLong

long getDefaultLong()
Return the default value for this resource.

Returns:
the default value for this resource interpreted as the return type.

getDefaultChar

char getDefaultChar()
Return the default value for this resource.

Returns:
the default value for this resource interpreted as the return type.

getDefaultFloat

float getDefaultFloat()
Return the default value for this resource.

Returns:
the default value for this resource interpreted as the return type.

getDefaultDouble

double getDefaultDouble()
Return the default value for this resource.

Returns:
the default value for this resource interpreted as the return type.

getDefaultString

java.lang.String getDefaultString()
Return the default value for this resource.

Returns:
the default value for this resource interpreted as the return type.

getDefaultLanguage

java.lang.String getDefaultLanguage()
Return the language of the default value for this resource.

Returns:
the language of the default value for this resource

getDefaultResource

@Deprecated
Resource getDefaultResource(ResourceF f)
Deprecated. 

Return the default value for this resource.

The factory class f is used to create the object which is returned.

Parameters:
f - A factory class which will be used to create the object returned.
Returns:
the default value for this resource interpreted as the return type.

getDefaultAlt

Alt getDefaultAlt()
Return the default value for this resource.

Returns:
the default value for this resource interpreted as the return type.

getDefaultBag

Bag getDefaultBag()
Return the default value for this resource.

Returns:
the default value for this resource interpreted as the return type.

getDefaultSeq

Seq getDefaultSeq()
Return the default value for this resource.

Returns:
the default value for this resource interpreted as the return type.

remove

Container remove(Statement s)
Remove a value from the container.

The predicate of the statement s identifies the ordinal of the value to be removed. Once removed, the values in the container with a higher ordinal value are renumbered. The renumbering algorithm is implementation dependent.

Specified by:
remove in interface Container
Parameters:
s - The statement to be removed from the model.
Returns:
this container to enable cascading calls.


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