org.semanticweb.owlapi.model
Interface OWLAnnotation

All Superinterfaces:

java.lang.Comparable<OWLObject>, OWLObject

All Known Implementing Classes:

OWLAnnotationImpl

public interface OWLAnnotation
extends OWLObject

Author: Matthew Horridge
The University Of Manchester
Bio-Health Informatics Group
Date: 18-Dec-2006

Annotations are used in the various types of annotation axioms, which bind annotations to their subjects (i.e. axioms or declarations).

An annotation is equal to another annotation if both objects have equal annotation URIs and have equal annotation values

Method Summary

void	accept(OWLAnnotationObjectVisitor visitor)
<O> O	accept(OWLAnnotationObjectVisitorEx<O> visitor)
java.util.Set<OWLAnnotation>	getAnnotations() Gets the annotations on this annotation
OWLAnnotationProperty	getProperty() Gets the property that this annotation acts along
OWLAnnotationValue	getValue() Gets the annotation value.
boolean	isDeprecatedIRIAnnotation() Determines if this annotation is an annotation used to deprecate an IRI.

Methods inherited from interface org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLObject

accept, accept, getClassesInSignature, getDataPropertiesInSignature, getDatatypesInSignature, getIndividualsInSignature, getNestedClassExpressions, getObjectPropertiesInSignature, getSignature, isBottomEntity, isTopEntity

Methods inherited from interface java.lang.Comparable

compareTo

Method Detail

getProperty

OWLAnnotationProperty getProperty()

Gets the property that this annotation acts along

Returns:

The annotation property

getValue

OWLAnnotationValue getValue()

Gets the annotation value. The type of value will depend upon the type of the annotation e.g. whether the annotation is an OWLLiteral, an IRI or an OWLAnonymousIndividual.

Returns:

The annotation value.

See Also:

OWLAnnotationValueVisitor, OWLAnnotationValueVisitorEx

isDeprecatedIRIAnnotation

boolean isDeprecatedIRIAnnotation()

Determines if this annotation is an annotation used to deprecate an IRI. This is the case if the annotation property has an IRI of owl:deprecated and the value of the annotation is "true"^^xsd:boolean

Returns:

true if this annotation is an annotation that can be used to deprecate an IRI, otherwise false.

getAnnotations

java.util.Set<OWLAnnotation> getAnnotations()

Gets the annotations on this annotation

Returns:

A (possibly empty) set of annotations that annotate this annotation

accept

void accept(OWLAnnotationObjectVisitor visitor)

accept

<O> O accept(OWLAnnotationObjectVisitorEx<O> visitor)