uk.ac.manchester.cs.owl.owlapi

Class ParsableOWLOntologyFactory

java.lang.Object

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

uk.ac.manchester.cs.owl.owlapi.ParsableOWLOntologyFactory

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, OWLOntologyFactory

public class ParsableOWLOntologyFactory
extends AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory

An ontology factory that creates ontologies by parsing documents containing concrete representations of ontologies. This ontology factory will claim that it is suitable for creating an ontology if the document IRI can be opened for reading. This factory will not create empty ontologies. Parsers are instantiated by using a list of OWLParserFactory objects that are obtained from the OWLParserFactoryRegistry.

Author:

Matthew Horridge, The University Of Manchester, Bio-Health Informatics Group, Date: 14-Nov-2006

See Also:

Serialized Form

Nested Class Summary

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

OWLOntologyFactory.OWLOntologyCreationHandler

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ParsableOWLOntologyFactory() Creates an ontology factory.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	canCreateFromDocumentIRI(IRI documentIRI) Overriden - We don't create new empty ontologies - this isn't our responsibility.
boolean	canLoad(OWLOntologyDocumentSource documentSource) Determines if the factory can load an ontology for the specified input souce.
OWLOntology	createOWLOntology(URI ontologyURI, URI physicalURI) Deprecated.
List<OWLParser>	getParsers()
OWLOntology	loadOWLOntology(OWLOntologyDocumentSource documentSource, OWLOntologyFactory.OWLOntologyCreationHandler mediator) Creates and loads an OWLOntology.
OWLOntology	loadOWLOntology(OWLOntologyDocumentSource documentSource, OWLOntologyFactory.OWLOntologyCreationHandler mediator, OWLOntologyLoaderConfiguration configuration) Creates and loads an OWLOntology.

Methods inherited from class uk.ac.manchester.cs.owl.owlapi.AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory

createOWLOntology, getOWLOntologyManager, setOWLOntologyManager

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ParsableOWLOntologyFactory

public ParsableOWLOntologyFactory()

Creates an ontology factory.

Method Detail

getParsers

public List<OWLParser> getParsers()

Returns:

a list of parsers that this factory uses when it tries to create an ontology from a concrete representation.

canCreateFromDocumentIRI

public boolean canCreateFromDocumentIRI(IRI documentIRI)

Overriden - We don't create new empty ontologies - this isn't our responsibility.

Specified by:

canCreateFromDocumentIRI in interface OWLOntologyFactory

Overrides:

canCreateFromDocumentIRI in class AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory

Parameters:

documentIRI - ignored

Returns:

false

createOWLOntology

@Deprecated
public OWLOntology createOWLOntology(URI ontologyURI,
                                       URI physicalURI)

Deprecated.

Overriden - This method will throw an OWLException which wraps an UnsupportedOperationException.

Parameters:

ontologyURI - ignored

physicalURI - ignored

Returns:

never returns

canLoad

public boolean canLoad(OWLOntologyDocumentSource documentSource)

Description copied from interface: OWLOntologyFactory

Determines if the factory can load an ontology for the specified input souce.

Parameters:

documentSource - The input source from which to load the ontology

Returns:

true if the factory can load from the specified input source.

loadOWLOntology

public OWLOntology loadOWLOntology(OWLOntologyDocumentSource documentSource,
                          OWLOntologyFactory.OWLOntologyCreationHandler mediator,
                          OWLOntologyLoaderConfiguration configuration)
                            throws OWLOntologyCreationException

Description copied from interface: OWLOntologyFactory

Creates and loads an OWLOntology.

Parameters:

documentSource - The document source that provides the means of getting a representation of a document.

mediator - A pointer to an OWLOntologyCreationHandler which will be notified immediately after and empty ontology has been created, but before the source data is read and the ontology is loaded with axioms.

configuration - A configuration object which can be used to pass various options to the loader.

Returns:

The newly created and loaded ontology.

Throws:

OWLOntologyCreationException - if the ontology could not be created

loadOWLOntology

public OWLOntology loadOWLOntology(OWLOntologyDocumentSource documentSource,
                          OWLOntologyFactory.OWLOntologyCreationHandler mediator)
                            throws OWLOntologyCreationException

Description copied from interface: OWLOntologyFactory

Creates and loads an OWLOntology.

Parameters:

documentSource - The document source that provides the means of getting a representation of a document.

mediator - A pointer to an OWLOntologyCreationHandler which will be notified immediately after an empty ontology has been created, but before the source data is read and the ontology is loaded with axioms.

Returns:

The newly created and loaded ontology

Throws:

OWLOntologyCreationException - if the ontology could not be created.