uk.ac.manchester.cs.owl.owlapi

Class AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory

java.lang.Object

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, OWLOntologyFactory

Direct Known Subclasses:

EmptyInMemOWLOntologyFactory, ParsableOWLOntologyFactory

public abstract class AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory
extends Object
implements OWLOntologyFactory

Author:

Matthew Horridge, The University Of Manchester, Bio-Health Informatics Group, Date: 15-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
AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	canCreateFromDocumentIRI(IRI documentIRI) Determines if the factory can create an ontology for the specified ontology document IRI.
OWLOntology	createOWLOntology(OWLOntologyID ontologyID, IRI documentIRI, OWLOntologyFactory.OWLOntologyCreationHandler handler) Creates an empty ontology that a concrete representation can be parsed into.
OWLOntologyManager	getOWLOntologyManager()
void	setOWLOntologyManager(OWLOntologyManager owlOntologyManager)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.OWLOntologyFactory

canLoad, loadOWLOntology, loadOWLOntology

Constructor Detail

AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory

public AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory()

Method Detail

setOWLOntologyManager

public void setOWLOntologyManager(OWLOntologyManager owlOntologyManager)

Specified by:

setOWLOntologyManager in interface OWLOntologyFactory

Parameters:

owlOntologyManager - the ontology manager to set. Cannot be null.

getOWLOntologyManager

public OWLOntologyManager getOWLOntologyManager()

Specified by:

getOWLOntologyManager in interface OWLOntologyFactory

Returns:

the ontology manager

canCreateFromDocumentIRI

public boolean canCreateFromDocumentIRI(IRI documentIRI)

Description copied from interface: OWLOntologyFactory

Determines if the factory can create an ontology for the specified ontology document IRI.

Specified by:

canCreateFromDocumentIRI in interface OWLOntologyFactory

Parameters:

documentIRI - The document IRI

Returns:

true if the factory can create an ontology given the specified document IRI, or false if the factory cannot create an ontology given the specified document IRI.

createOWLOntology

public OWLOntology createOWLOntology(OWLOntologyID ontologyID,
                                     IRI documentIRI,
                                     OWLOntologyFactory.OWLOntologyCreationHandler handler)
                              throws OWLOntologyCreationException

Creates an empty ontology that a concrete representation can be parsed into. Subclasses can override this method to change the implementation of the ontology.

Specified by:

createOWLOntology in interface OWLOntologyFactory

Parameters:

documentIRI - the document IRI

ontologyID - the ontology id

handler - the creation handler

Returns:

The created ontology

Throws:

OWLOntologyCreationException - if the ontology could not be created.