mindswap/owl/OWLEntity.java

	OWLEntity.java revision 2
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/*
 * Created on Nov 20, 2004
 */
package org.mindswap.owl;

import java.net.URI;

/**
 * Genric interface for OWL classes, properties and individuals.
 *
 * @author Evren Sirin
 */
public interface OWLEntity extends OWLObject {
    public OWLOntology getOntology();

    public OWLKnowledgeBase getKB();

    /**
     * Check if this resource represents an anonymous node
     *
     * @return
     */
    public boolean isAnon();

    /**
     * Return the URI for this resource. If this resource is anonymous then null value will be returned
     *
     * @return
     */
    public URI getURI();

    public String getLocalName();

    public String getQName();

    public Object getAnonID();

    /**
     * Get the rdfs:label for this resource. This function will look for labels with different language
     * codes according to the settings defined in {@link org.mindswap.owl.OWLConfig#DEFAULT_LANGS OWLConfig}
     *
     * @return
     */
    public String getLabel();

    /**
     * Get the rdfs:label with the specified language code. If the label for the given language does not
     * exist return null even a label is found for another language. Use {@link #getLabel()
     * getLabel()} to be more flexible.
     *
     * @param lang
     * @return
     */
    public String getLabel(String lang);

    /**
     * Return all labels written in any language.
     *
     * @return List of data values or empty list
     */
    public OWLDataValueList getLabels();

    /**
     * Set the value of rdfs:label for this resource. Empty language identifier will be used.
     *
     * @param label
     */
    public void setLabel(String label);

    public void setLabel(String label, String lang);

    public OWLDataValue getAnnotation(URI prop);

    public OWLDataValue getAnnotation(URI prop, String lang);

    public OWLDataValueList getAnnotations(URI prop);

    public void addAnnotation(URI property, OWLDataValue value);

    public void addAnnotation(URI property, String value);

    public void addAnnotation(URI property, String value, String lang);

    public void setAnnotation(URI property, OWLDataValue value);

    public void setAnnotation(URI property, String value);

    public void setAnnotation(URI property, String value, String lang);

    public void removeAnnotations(URI property);

    /**
     * Return a (more or less) user-friendly string representation. Tries getLabel() first and
     * drops to toString() if there is no label.
     *
     * @return
     */
    public String toPrettyString();
}