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

All Superinterfaces:

FrontsNode, RDFNode, Resource

All Known Subinterfaces:

AnnotationProperty, DatatypeProperty, FunctionalProperty, InverseFunctionalProperty, ObjectProperty, OntProperty, SymmetricProperty, TransitiveProperty

public interface Property
extends Resource

An RDF Property.

Version:

Release='$Name: $' Revision='$Revision: 1.2 $' Date='$Date: 2010/01/11 09:16:56 $'

Author:

bwm

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getLocalName() Returns the name of this property within its namespace.
java.lang.String	getNameSpace() Returns the namespace associated with this property.
int	getOrdinal() Returns the ordinal value of a containment property.
Property	inModel(Model m) Override RDFNode.inModel() to produce a staticly-typed Property in the given Model.
boolean	isProperty()

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, getProperty, getPropertyResourceValue, getRequiredProperty, getURI, hasLiteral, hasLiteral, hasLiteral, hasLiteral, hasLiteral, hasLiteral, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasURI, 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

isProperty

boolean isProperty()

getNameSpace

java.lang.String getNameSpace()

Returns the namespace associated with this property.

Specified by:

getNameSpace in interface Resource

Returns:

The namespace for this property.

inModel

Property inModel(Model m)

Override RDFNode.inModel() to produce a staticly-typed Property in the given Model.

Specified by:

inModel in interface RDFNode

Specified by:

inModel in interface Resource

Parameters:

m - a model to move the node to

Returns:

this, if it's already in m (or no model), a copy in m otherwise

getLocalName

java.lang.String getLocalName()

Returns the name of this property within its namespace.

Specified by:

getLocalName in interface Resource

Returns:

The name of this property within its namespace.

getOrdinal

int getOrdinal()

Returns the ordinal value of a containment property.

RDF containers use properties of the form _1, _2, _3 etc to represent the containment relationship between the container and the objects it contains. When invoked on such a containment property, this method returns the integer part of the property name. When invoked on other properties, it returns 0.

Returns:

The ordinal value of a containment property, or 0 otherwise.