Just a thought on "ergonomics": it might be nice to separate "clear" and "delete", so instead of RDFConnection::delete either clearing or deleting a graph depending on whether it is the default graph, you have finer control and can clear a non-default graph.
--- A. Soroka The University of Virginia Library On Aug 4, 2015, at 6:21 PM, Andy Seaborne <a...@apache.org> wrote: > There's a note in the interface > > // ---- Query > // Maybe more query forms: querySelect(Query)? select(Query)? > > At the moment, the operations are the basic ones (the SPARQL protocols for > query, update and GSP). There's scope to add forms on top. > > void execSelect(Query query, Consumer<QuerySolution> action) > > is one possibility. > > Andy > > On 04/08/15 16:14, aj...@virginia.edu wrote: >> Is this a little bit like Sesame 4's new Repository helper type? Not totally >> the same thing, but similar in that it's bringing a lot of convenience >> together around the notion of dataset? >> >> http://rdf4j.org/doc/4/programming.docbook?view#Stream_based_querying_and_transaction_handling >> >> --- >> A. Soroka >> The University of Virginia Library >> >> On Aug 2, 2015, at 3:05 PM, Andy Seaborne <a...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> Stephen, all, >>> >>> Recently on users@ there was a question about the s-* in java. That got me >>> thinking about an interface to pull together all SPARQL operations into one >>> application-facing place. We have jena-jdbc, and jena-client already - >>> this is my sketch take. >>> >>> [1] RDFConnection >>> >>> Currently, it's a sketch-for-discussion; it's a bit DatasetAccessor-like + >>> SPARQL query + SPARQL Update. And some whole-dataset-REST-ish operations >>> (that Fuseki happens to support). It's a chance to redo things a bit. >>> >>> RDFConnection uses the existing SPARQL+RDF classes and abstractions in ARQ, >>> not strings, [*] rather than putting all app-visible clases in one package. >>> >>> Adding an equivalent of DatabaseClient to represent one place would be good >>> - and add the admin operations, for Fuseki at least. Also, a streaming >>> load possibility. >>> >>> Comments? >>> Specific use cases? >>> >>> Andy >>> >>> (multi-operation transactions ... later!) >>> >>> [*] You can use strings as well - that's the way to get arbitrary >>> non-standard extensions through. >>> >>> [1] >>> https://github.com/afs/AFS-Dev/blob/master/src/main/java/projects/rdfconnection/RDFConnection.java >> >
