I dont think I misunderstood you .. the annotation would be the URI 

On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 23:58:56 UTC+11, Irene Polikoff wrote:
>
> Not sure what you mean - 
>
> it may require annotation of the SHACL path, or an automated rule, to bind 
> the graphql output data element to a URI 
>
>
> What URI? There is no property URI to bind to. It is a path that either 
> goes in inverse of a single property or traverses a chain of properties. 
> The chain can be of variable length.
>
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>
> On Mar 3, 2020, at 2:22 AM, Rob Atkinson <robatki...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
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> well I'll leave it there having pointed out there is movement in this 
> direction in some places - its obviously your choice :-)
>
> re the SHACL paths issue - may need a little bit more of an example, but 
> it may require annotation of the SHACL path, or an automated rule, to bind 
> the graphql output data element to a URI - but its perfectly legal to leave 
> these unbound too - you just wont be able to convert those bits to RDF in 
> the client (if you really wanted to - we're all sceptical about that).  
>  Anyway - this is the sort of thing I was suggesting could be left to 
> customisable configuration, do the simple things first.
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 17:35:21 UTC+11, Irene Polikoff wrote:
>>
>> As an option, one could in the future provide JSON-LD context. I am 
>> saying “as an option” because I would not want to force it on applications 
>> and users that are not interested in it and will find it confusing or 
>> overcomplicating. 
>>
>> With respect to what makes sense and whether this is something important 
>> enough to address, - rightly or wrongly, at the moment, we do not hear 
>> about demand for this, while we do get a lot of demand and many requests 
>> for other things. This could change in the future as the application 
>> development patterns shift. We always need to make sure we are assigning 
>> requests for features the right priority. Practically speaking, it is very 
>> important to focus on what most or, at least, a sizable percentage of 
>> customers need today.
>>
>> Further, what are your thoughts about how SHACL paths would be addressed? 
>> They are quite common - for inverses, for example. . 
>>
>> On Mar 2, 2020, at 11:56 PM, Rob Atkinson <robatki...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> An example of an API that moved from JSON to JSON-LD :
>>
>>
>> https://fiware-datamodels.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ngsi-ld_howto/index.html
>>
>> why? - not because they need clients to be RDF aware, but because they 
>> need data transfers to be semantically explicit - even if it just means 
>> unambiguous data values, and Linked Data as a basic client behaviour that 
>> requires no extar RDF overhead.
>>
>> Its true that there is no Web of Data functioning really, and there are 
>> ad-hoc data models everywhere and dumb clients - but that doesnt mean thats 
>> the only implementation pattern that makes sense.
>>
>> Would I build an API for a Web context these days without using JSON as a 
>> payload ... no! Would I use JSON without enabling Linked Data - no!  
>>
>> I dont understand why it would make sense to be crippling APIs by 
>> throwing away semantic information that can be added with so little 
>> overhead, and without compromising backwards compatibility. Sure we could 
>> just build wrappers that fix this, but they are unlikely to be as efficient 
>> and add a burden to find or wrtie such extensions.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 12:20:13 UTC+11, Irene Polikoff wrote:
>>>
>>> This was my thinking as well. 
>>>
>>> Annotating GraphQL query result with JSON-LD would seem to be useful 
>>> only for converting JSON returned by the GraphQL query back to RDF. In our 
>>> experience, however, GraphQl queries are used by applications that are not 
>>> RDF aware. They do not need to get RDF back from the GraphQL endpoint.  We 
>>> have not, so far, received any requirements (or even questions) about 
>>> supporting JSON-LD context in GraphQL.
>>>
>>> I would also not go as far as describe GraphQL as “the main query 
>>> interface” in TopBraid EDG. SPARQL is and always has been fully supported. 
>>> I think GraphQL is the main and preferred interface for the traditional 
>>> client-side applications.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 2, 2020, at 6:52 PM, Holger Knublauch <hol...@topquadrant.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Rob,
>>>
>>> I am aware that other GraphQL implementations on top of RDF do support 
>>> JSON-LD context generation. Technically, this might be doable, although 
>>> there are some cases like sh:path expressions where there is no single 
>>> property or triple that we could map to, and of course no JSON-LD would be 
>>> able to map partial queries like { label } without also having a uri field.
>>>
>>> The thing I would like to better understand is what would clients do 
>>> with that info. My assumption is that we use GraphQL to "flatten" a graph 
>>> into a tree structure for easy consumption by rather traditional 
>>> client-side code, e.g. written in React or other JS libraries. Would those 
>>> clients really have a full RDF-based API, and would they be able to make 
>>> sense of the partial graphs that would be returned by the server? If yes, 
>>> isn't a SPARQL CONSTRUCT a more natural way to produce graphs, instead of 
>>> relying on another set of intermediate steps?
>>>
>>> Holger
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3/03/2020 09:22, Rob Atkinson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> to fully "support" JSON-LD it would be required to support it in the 
>>> main query interface - i.e. the GraphQL JSON response should be decorated 
>>> with a JSON-LD context statement that binds the available URI identifiers 
>>> to the graphql schema elements - after all the graphql schema is generated 
>>> from the underlying SHACL models. 
>>>
>>> For interoperability such JSON-LD contexts should be modular of course - 
>>> if a model imports SKOS then the JSON-LD context should import a SKOS 
>>> context rather than dump it out. If this is too much work in the short 
>>> term, I'd suggest that the injection of a context via a URI referencing 
>>> another service which constructs the context for a given graphql schema - 
>>> and if necessary leave it empty, but allow this to be customised by users 
>>> to be more modular in future. This at least establishes an architecture 
>>> which can be evolved to seamlessly allow more natively supplied detail in 
>>> future, without too much effort in the short term.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, 3 March 2020 09:29:44 UTC+11, R. U.S. wrote: 
>>>>
>>>> Hi, I've been working with Topbraid for a while and now I need to 
>>>> support JSON-LD files (importing/editing/exporting). What is the current 
>>>> support for it? Can you point me to the documentation for this?
>>>>
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