com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology.daml
Interface DAMLInstance

All Superinterfaces:

DAMLCommon, FrontsNode, OntResource, RDFNode, Resource

All Known Subinterfaces:

DAMLDataInstance

public interface DAMLInstance

extends DAMLCommon

Java representation of a DAML Instance.

Version:

CVS info: $Id: DAMLInstance.java,v 1.5 2003/08/27 13:04:45 andy_seaborne Exp $

Author:

Ian Dickinson, HP Labs (email)

Method Summary

PropertyAccessor	accessProperty(Property property) Answer a property accessor for a user defined property.
ExtendedIterator	getEquivalentValues() Answer an iterator over all of the DAML instances that are equivalent to this instance, which will be the union of daml:equivalentTo and daml:sameIndividualAs.
ExtendedIterator	getSameInstances() Return an iterator over all of the instances that are the same as this one, by generating the transitive closure over the daml:samePropertyAs property.
PropertyAccessor	prop_sameIndividualAs() Property accessor for daml:sameIndividualAs property on a DAML instance.

Methods inherited from interface com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology.daml.DAMLCommon

getDAMLModel, getEquivalenceSet, getRDFTypes, getVocabulary, prop_comment, prop_equivalentTo, prop_label, prop_type, setRDFType

Methods inherited from interface com.hp.hpl.jena.ontology.OntResource

accessor, accessor, addComment, addComment, addDifferentFrom, addIsDefinedBy, addLabel, addLabel, addRDFType, addSameAs, addSeeAlso, addVersionInfo, asAllDifferent, asAnnotationProperty, asClass, asIndividual, asOntology, asProperty, getCardinality, getComment, getDifferentFrom, getIsDefinedBy, getLabel, getProfile, getPropertyValue, getRDFType, getRDFType, getSameAs, getSeeAlso, getVersionInfo, hasComment, hasComment, hasLabel, hasLabel, hasRDFType, hasRDFType, hasRDFType, hasSeeAlso, hasVersionInfo, isDefinedBy, isDifferentFrom, isSameAs, listComments, listDifferentFrom, listIsDefinedBy, listLabels, listPropertyValues, listRDFTypes, listSameAs, listSeeAlso, listVersionInfo, remove, removeComment, removeComment, removeDefinedBy, removeDifferentFrom, removeLabel, removeLabel, removeProperty, removeRDFType, removeSameAs, removeSeeAlso, removeVersionInfo, setComment, setDifferentFrom, setIsDefinedBy, setLabel, setPropertyValue, setRDFType, setSameAs, setSeeAlso, setVersionInfo

Methods inherited from interface com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Resource

abort, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, begin, commit, equals, getId, getLocalName, getModel, getNameSpace, getNode, getProperty, getRequiredProperty, getURI, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, isAnon, listProperties, listProperties, removeAll, removeProperties, toString

Methods inherited from interface com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.RDFNode

as, canAs, inModel, visitWith

Methods inherited from interface com.hp.hpl.jena.graph.FrontsNode

asNode

Method Detail

prop_sameIndividualAs

public PropertyAccessor prop_sameIndividualAs()

Property accessor for daml:sameIndividualAs property on a DAML instance.

Returns:

a property accessor

getSameInstances

public ExtendedIterator getSameInstances()

Return an iterator over all of the instances that are the same as this one, by generating the transitive closure over the daml:samePropertyAs property.

Returns:

an iterator whose values will all be DAMLInstance objects

getEquivalentValues

public ExtendedIterator getEquivalentValues()

Answer an iterator over all of the DAML instances that are equivalent to this instance, which will be the union of daml:equivalentTo and daml:sameIndividualAs.

Specified by:

getEquivalentValues in interface DAMLCommon

Returns:

an iterator ranging over every equivalent DAML instance - each value of the iteration should be a DAMLInstance object.

accessProperty

public PropertyAccessor accessProperty(Property property)

Answer a property accessor for a user defined property.

Parameters:

property - An RDF or DAML property

Returns:

a property accessor, that simplifies some of the basic operations of a given property on a given object