uk.ac.manchester.cs.owl
Class EmptyInMemOWLOntologyFactory

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

OWLOntologyFactory

public class EmptyInMemOWLOntologyFactory
extends AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory

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

EmptyInMemOWLOntologyFactory()

Method Summary

boolean	canLoad(OWLOntologyInputSource inputSource) Determines if the factory can load 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.
OWLOntology	loadOWLOntology(OWLOntologyInputSource inputSource, OWLOntologyFactory.OWLOntologyCreationHandler mediator) Creates and loads an OWLOntology.

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

canCreateFromPhysicalURI, getOWLOntologyManager, setOWLOntologyManager

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

EmptyInMemOWLOntologyFactory

public EmptyInMemOWLOntologyFactory()

Method Detail

loadOWLOntology

public OWLOntology loadOWLOntology(OWLOntologyInputSource inputSource,
                                   OWLOntologyFactory.OWLOntologyCreationHandler mediator)
                            throws OWLOntologyCreationException

Description copied from interface: OWLOntologyFactory

Creates and loads an OWLOntology. be loaded into the ontology.

mediator - A pointer to an OWLOntologyCreationHandler which will be notified immediately after an emtpty 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.

createOWLOntology

public OWLOntology createOWLOntology(java.net.URI ontologyURI,
                                     java.net.URI physicalURI,
                                     OWLOntologyFactory.OWLOntologyCreationHandler handler)
                              throws OWLOntologyCreationException

Description copied from class: AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory

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

Overrides:

createOWLOntology in class AbstractInMemOWLOntologyFactory

Parameters:

ontologyURI - The URI of the ontology to create. This MUST NOT BE NULL.

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.

canLoad

public boolean canLoad(OWLOntologyInputSource inputSource)

Description copied from interface: OWLOntologyFactory

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

Returns:

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