uk.ac.manchester.cs.owl
Class AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory

java.lang.Object
  uk.ac.manchester.cs.owl.AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory

All Implemented Interfaces:

OWLOntologyFactory

Direct Known Subclasses:

EmptyInMemOWLOntologyFactory, ParsableOWLOntologyFactory

public abstract class AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory
extends java.lang.Object
implements OWLOntologyFactory

Author: Matthew Horridge
The University Of Manchester
Bio-Health Informatics Group
Date: 15-Nov-2006

Nested Class Summary

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

OWLOntologyFactory.OWLOntologyCreationHandler

Constructor Summary

AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory()

Method Summary

boolean	canCreateFromPhysicalURI(java.net.URI physicalURI) Determines if the factory can create an ontology for the specified physical URI.
OWLOntology	createOWLOntology(java.net.URI ontologyURI, java.net.URI physicalURI, 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

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

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

canLoad, loadOWLOntology

Constructor Detail

AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory

public AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory()

Method Detail

setOWLOntologyManager

public void setOWLOntologyManager(OWLOntologyManager owlOntologyManager)

Specified by:

setOWLOntologyManager in interface OWLOntologyFactory

getOWLOntologyManager

public OWLOntologyManager getOWLOntologyManager()

canCreateFromPhysicalURI

public boolean canCreateFromPhysicalURI(java.net.URI physicalURI)

Description copied from interface: OWLOntologyFactory

Determines if the factory can create an ontology for the specified physical URI.

Specified by:

canCreateFromPhysicalURI in interface OWLOntologyFactory

Parameters:

physicalURI - The physical URI of the ontology to be created. This may be null.

Returns:

true if the factory can create an ontology given a physical URI, or false if the factory cannot create an ontology.

createOWLOntology

public OWLOntology createOWLOntology(java.net.URI ontologyURI,
                                     java.net.URI physicalURI,
                                     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:

ontologyURI -

physicalURI - The physical URI of the ontology. This MAY be null.

handler - The ontology creation handler that will be notified when the ontology has been created.

Returns:

The newly created ontology

Throws:

OWLOntologyCreationException - if the ontology could not be created.