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

All Known Subinterfaces:

RDFXMLWriterI

public interface RDFWriter

RDFWriter is an interface to RDF serializers.

An RDFWriter is a class which serializes an RDF model to some RDF serializaion language. RDF/XML, n-triple and n3 are examples of serialization languages.

Version:

$Revision: 1.7 $

Author:

bwm

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

NSPREFIXPROPBASE

Method Summary

RDFErrorHandler	setErrorHandler(RDFErrorHandler errHandler) Set an error handler.
java.lang.Object	setProperty(java.lang.String propName, java.lang.Object propValue) Set a property to control the behaviour of this writer.
void	write(Model model, java.io.OutputStream out, java.lang.String base) Serialize Model model to OutputStream out.
void	write(Model model, java.io.Writer out, java.lang.String base) Caution: Serialize Model model to Writer out.

Field Detail

NSPREFIXPROPBASE

public static final java.lang.String NSPREFIXPROPBASE

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Constant Field Values

Method Detail

write

public void write(Model model,
                  java.io.Writer out,
                  java.lang.String base)

Caution: Serialize Model model to Writer out. It is often better to use an OutputStream and permit Jena to choose the character encoding. The charset restrictions on the Writer are defined by the different implementations of this interface. Typically using an OutputStreamWriter (e.g. a FileWriter) at least permits the implementation to examine the encoding. With an arbitrary Writer implementations assume a utf-8 encoding.

Parameters:

out - The Writer to which the serialization should be sent.

model - The model to be written.

base - the base URI for relative URI calculations. null means use only absolute URI's.

write

public void write(Model model,
                  java.io.OutputStream out,
                  java.lang.String base)

Serialize Model model to OutputStream out. The implementation chooses the character encoding, utf-8 is preferred.

Parameters:

out - The OutputStream to which the serialization should be sent.

model - The model to be written.

base - the base URI for relative URI calculations. null means use only absolute URI's.

setProperty

public java.lang.Object setProperty(java.lang.String propName,
                                    java.lang.Object propValue)

Set a property to control the behaviour of this writer.

An RDFWriter's behaviour can be influenced by defining property values interpreted by that particular writer class. The values for such properties can be changed by calling this method.

No standard properties are defined. For the properties recognised by any particular writer implementation, see the the documentation for that implementation.

The built-in RDFWriters have properties as defined by:

N3

N-TRIPLE

No properties.

RDF/XML

RDF/XML-ABBREV

Parameters:

propName - The name of the property.

propValue - The new value of the property

Returns:

the old value for this property, or null if no value was set.

setErrorHandler

public RDFErrorHandler setErrorHandler(RDFErrorHandler errHandler)

Set an error handler.

Parameters:

errHandler - The new error handler to be used.

Returns:

the old error handler