org.semanticweb.owlapi.model
Class OWLOntologyFormat

java.lang.Object
  org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLOntologyFormat

Direct Known Subclasses:

DLSyntaxHTMLOntologyFormat, DLSyntaxOntologyFormat, KRSS2OntologyFormat, KRSSOntologyFormat, LatexAxiomsListOntologyFormat, LatexOntologyFormat, OBOOntologyFormat, PrefixOWLOntologyFormat

public abstract class OWLOntologyFormat
extends java.lang.Object

Author: Matthew Horridge
The University Of Manchester
Bio-Health Informatics Group
Date: 02-Jan-2007

Represents the concrete representation format of an ontology. The equality of an ontology format is defined by the equals and hashCode method (not its identity).

Constructor Summary

OWLOntologyFormat()

Method Summary

PrefixOWLOntologyFormat	asPrefixOWLOntologyFormat() If this format is an instance of PrefixOWLOntologyFormat then this method will obtain it as a PrefixOWLOntologyFormat
boolean	equals(java.lang.Object obj)
java.lang.Object	getParameter(java.lang.Object key, java.lang.Object defaultValue)
int	hashCode()
boolean	isPrefixOWLOntologyFormat() Determines if this format is an instance of a format that uses prefixes to shorted IRIs
void	setParameter(java.lang.Object key, java.lang.Object value)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

OWLOntologyFormat

public OWLOntologyFormat()

Method Detail

setParameter

public void setParameter(java.lang.Object key,
                         java.lang.Object value)

getParameter

public java.lang.Object getParameter(java.lang.Object key,
                                     java.lang.Object defaultValue)

isPrefixOWLOntologyFormat

public boolean isPrefixOWLOntologyFormat()

Determines if this format is an instance of a format that uses prefixes to shorted IRIs

Returns:

true if this format is an instance of PrefixOWLOntologyFormat other wise false.

asPrefixOWLOntologyFormat

public PrefixOWLOntologyFormat asPrefixOWLOntologyFormat()

If this format is an instance of PrefixOWLOntologyFormat then this method will obtain it as a PrefixOWLOntologyFormat

Returns:

This format as a more specific PrefixOWLOntologyFormat.

Throws:

java.lang.ClassCastException - if this format is not an instance of PrefixOWLOntologyFormat

equals

public boolean equals(java.lang.Object obj)

Overrides:

equals in class java.lang.Object

hashCode

public int hashCode()

Overrides:

hashCode in class java.lang.Object