org.semanticweb.owlapi.model
Interface OWLOntologyStorer

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractOWLOntologyStorer, DLSyntaxHTMLOntologyStorer, DLSyntaxOntologyStorer, DLSyntaxOntologyStorerBase, KRSS2OWLSyntaxOntologyStorer, KRSS2SyntaxOntologyStorer, KRSSSyntaxOntologyStorer, LatexOntologyStorer, ManchesterOWLSyntaxOntologyStorer, OBOFlatFileOntologyStorer, OWLFunctionalSyntaxOntologyStorer, OWLXMLOntologyStorer, RDFXMLOntologyStorer, TurtleOntologyStorer

public interface OWLOntologyStorer

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

An ontology storer stores an ontology in a particular format at a location specified by a particular URI.

Method Summary

boolean	canStoreOntology(OWLOntologyFormat ontologyFormat) Determines if this storer can store an ontology in the specified ontology format.
void	storeOntology(OWLOntologyManager manager, OWLOntology ontology, IRI documentIRI, OWLOntologyFormat ontologyFormat) Stores an ontology to the specified ontology document IRI in the specified format
void	storeOntology(OWLOntologyManager manager, OWLOntology ontology, OWLOntologyDocumentTarget target, OWLOntologyFormat format) Stores an ontology to the specified target.

Method Detail

canStoreOntology

boolean canStoreOntology(OWLOntologyFormat ontologyFormat)

Determines if this storer can store an ontology in the specified ontology format.

Parameters:

ontologyFormat - The desired ontology format.

Returns:

true if this storer can store an ontology in the desired format.

storeOntology

void storeOntology(OWLOntologyManager manager,
                   OWLOntology ontology,
                   IRI documentIRI,
                   OWLOntologyFormat ontologyFormat)
                   throws OWLOntologyStorageException,
                          java.io.IOException

Stores an ontology to the specified ontology document IRI in the specified format

Parameters:

manager - The manager

ontology - The ontology to be stored

documentIRI - The ontology document IRI where the ontology will be saved to

ontologyFormat - The format that the ontology should be stored in @throws OWLOntologyStorageException if there was a problem storing the ontology.

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if there was an IOException when storing the ontology

OWLOntologyStorageException - if there was a problem storing the ontology

storeOntology

void storeOntology(OWLOntologyManager manager,
                   OWLOntology ontology,
                   OWLOntologyDocumentTarget target,
                   OWLOntologyFormat format)
                   throws OWLOntologyStorageException,
                          java.io.IOException

Stores an ontology to the specified target. This method assumes the storer can write the ontology to some stream.

Parameters:

manager - The manager

ontology - The ontology to be stored

target - The target which describes the ontology document where the ontology should be stored

format - The format in which to store the ontology

Throws:

OWLOntologyStorageException - if there was a problem storing the ontology.

java.io.IOException - if there was an IOException when storing the ontology.