uk.ac.manchester.cs.owl.owlapi
Class AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory

java.lang.Object
  uk.ac.manchester.cs.owl.owlapi.AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory

All Implemented Interfaces:

OWLOntologyFactory

Direct Known Subclasses:

EmptyInMemOWLOntologyFactory, ParsableOWLOntologyFactory

public abstract class AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory
extends java.lang.Object
implements OWLOntologyFactory

Author: Matthew Horridge
The University Of Manchester
Bio-Health Informatics Group
Date: 15-Nov-2006

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLOntologyFactory

OWLOntologyFactory.OWLOntologyCreationHandler

Constructor Summary

AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory()

Method Summary

boolean	canCreateFromDocumentIRI(IRI documentIRI) Determines if the factory can create an ontology for the specified ontology document IRI.
OWLOntology	createOWLOntology(OWLOntologyID ontologyID, IRI documentIRI, OWLOntologyFactory.OWLOntologyCreationHandler handler) Creates an empty ontology that a concrete representation can be parsed into.
OWLOntologyManager	getOWLOntologyManager()
void	setOWLOntologyManager(OWLOntologyManager owlOntologyManager)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

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

canLoad, loadOWLOntology

Constructor Detail

AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory

public AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory()

Method Detail

setOWLOntologyManager

public void setOWLOntologyManager(OWLOntologyManager owlOntologyManager)

Specified by:

setOWLOntologyManager in interface OWLOntologyFactory

getOWLOntologyManager

public OWLOntologyManager getOWLOntologyManager()

canCreateFromDocumentIRI

public boolean canCreateFromDocumentIRI(IRI documentIRI)

Description copied from interface: OWLOntologyFactory

Determines if the factory can create an ontology for the specified ontology document IRI.

Specified by:

canCreateFromDocumentIRI in interface OWLOntologyFactory

Parameters:

documentIRI - The document IRI

Returns:

true if the factory can create an ontology given the specified document IRI, or false if the factory cannot create an ontology given the specified document IRI.

createOWLOntology

public OWLOntology createOWLOntology(OWLOntologyID ontologyID,
                                     IRI documentIRI,
                                     OWLOntologyFactory.OWLOntologyCreationHandler handler)
                              throws OWLOntologyCreationException

Creates an empty ontology that a concrete representation can be parsed into. Subclasses can override this method to change the implementation of the ontology.

Specified by:

createOWLOntology in interface OWLOntologyFactory

Parameters:

documentIRI -

ontologyID - The ID of the ontology to create. This MUST NOT BE null.

handler - The ontology creation handler that will be notified when the ontology has been created. @return The newly created ontology

Returns:

The created ontology

Throws:

OWLOntologyCreationException - if the ontology could not be created.