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Jan Martin Keil commented on JENA-1751:
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{quote}Just so we're clear here - {{ElementPathBlock}} is the unit used by
SPARQL 1.1 parsing.
{{ElementTriplesBlock}} (SPARQL 1.0) intentionally throws an exception if
given a path.
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Thanks for the hint. I think, it would make sense to update both and also other
subclasses of {{Element}} with add* methods:
* {{ElementData}}
* {{ElementGroup}}
* {{ElementUnion}}
{quote}Does module jena-querybuilder meet your needs?
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Unfortunately not yet. For example, it does not provide (NOT) EXISTS support.
This would change by treating this issue and JENA-1752.
{quote}Also - general point - if programmatically generating a query, you may
wish to generate SPARQL algebra and not SPARQL syntax. Sometimes, it's easier.
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Thanks for the hint, again. I will have a look.
{quote}The only issue I see is that changing a method signature to add a return
is binary-incompatible even if it is source-compatible.
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To avoid this incompatibility one could only add constructors like {{public
ElementPathBlock(Triple... triples)}} that make chains unnecessary. At least
for my use case, this would work. What do you think?
> Enable inline use of ElementTriplesBlock
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>
> Key: JENA-1751
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-1751
> Project: Apache Jena
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Jan Martin Keil
> Priority: Major
>
> To enable the inline use of
> {{org.apache.jena.sparql.syntax.ElementTriplesBlock}} during query
> generation, I propose to:
> * add constructor {{public ElementTriplesBlock(Triple triple)}}
> * add constructor {{public ElementTriplesBlock(Node s, Node p, Node o)}}
> * add {{return this}} to
> ** {{addTriple(Triple t)}}
> ** {{addTriple(int index, Triple t)}}
> ** {{addTriplePath(TriplePath path)}}
> ** {{addTriplePath(int index, TriplePath path)}}
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