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The RDF Graph query API.

Summary

Functions

Creates a RDF.Query.BGP struct.

Execute the given query against the given graph.

Execute the given query against the given graph.

Creates a RDF.Query.BGP struct for a path through a graph.

Returns a Stream for the execution of the given query against the given graph.

Returns a Stream for the execution of the given query against the given graph.

Functions

Creates a RDF.Query.BGP struct.

A basic graph pattern consist of single or list of triple patterns. A triple pattern is a tuple which consists of RDF terms or variables for the subject, predicate and object of an RDF triple.

As RDF terms RDF.IRIs, RDF.BlankNodes, RDF.Literals or all Elixir values which can be coerced to any of those are allowed, i.e. RDF.Vocabulary.Namespace atoms or Elixir values which can be coerced to RDF literals with RDF.Literal.coerce/1 (only on object position). On predicate position the :a atom can be used for the rdf:type property.

Variables are written as atoms ending with a question mark. Blank nodes which in a graph query patterns act like a variable which doesn't show up in the results can be written as atoms starting with an underscore.

Here's a basic graph pattern example:

[
  {:s?, :a, EX.Foo},
  {:s?, :a, EX.Bar},
  {:s?, RDFS.label, "foo"},
  {:s?, :p?, :o?}
]

Multiple triple patterns sharing the same subject and/or predicate can be grouped:

  • Multiple objects to the same subject-predicate pair can be written by just writing them one by one on the same triple pattern.
  • Multiple predicate-objects pair on the same subject can be written by grouping them with square brackets.

With these, the previous example can be shortened to:

{
  :s?,
    [:a, EX.Foo, EX.Bar],
    [RDFS.label, "foo"],
    [:p?, :o?]
}
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execute(query, graph, opts \\ [])

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Execute the given query against the given graph.

The query can be given directly as RDF.Query.BGP struct created with one of the builder functions in this module or as basic graph pattern expression accepted by bgp/1.

The result is a list of maps with the solutions for the variables in the graph pattern query and will be returned in a :ok tuple. In case of an error a :error tuple is returned.

Example

Let's assume we have an example_graph with these triples:

@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix ex:   <http://example.com/> .

ex:Outlaw
  foaf:name   "Johnny Lee Outlaw" ;
  foaf:mbox   <mailto:jlow@example.com> .

ex:Goodguy
  foaf:name   "Peter Goodguy" ;
  foaf:mbox   <mailto:peter@example.org> ;
  foaf:friend ex:Outlaw .
iex> {:_, FOAF.name, :name?} |> RDF.Query.execute(example_graph())
{:ok, [%{name: ~L"Peter Goodguy"}, %{name: ~L"Johnny Lee Outlaw"}]}

iex> [
...>   {:_, FOAF.name, :name?},
...>   {:_, FOAF.mbox, :mbox?},
...> ] |> RDF.Query.execute(example_graph())
{:ok, [
  %{name: ~L"Peter Goodguy", mbox: ~I<mailto:peter@example.org>},
  %{name: ~L"Johnny Lee Outlaw", mbox: ~I<mailto:jlow@example.com>}
]}

iex> query = [
...>   {:_, FOAF.name, :name?},
...>   {:_, FOAF.mbox, :mbox?},
...> ] |> RDF.Query.bgp()
...> RDF.Query.execute(query, example_graph())
{:ok, [
  %{name: ~L"Peter Goodguy", mbox: ~I<mailto:peter@example.org>},
  %{name: ~L"Johnny Lee Outlaw", mbox: ~I<mailto:jlow@example.com>}
]}

iex> [
...>   EX.Goodguy, FOAF.friend, FOAF.name, :name?
...> ] |> RDF.Query.path() |> RDF.Query.execute(example_graph())
{:ok, [%{name: ~L"Johnny Lee Outlaw"}]}
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execute!(query, graph, opts \\ [])

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Execute the given query against the given graph.

As opposed to execute/3 this function returns the results directly or fails with an exception.

Creates a RDF.Query.BGP struct for a path through a graph.

The elements of the path can consist of the same RDF terms and variable expressions allowed in bgp/1 expressions.

Example

The RDF.Query.BGP struct build with this:

RDF.Query.path [EX.S, EX.p, RDFS.label, :name?]

is the same as the one build by this bgp/1 call:

RDF.Query.bgp [
  {EX.S, EX.p, :_o},
  {:_o, RDFS.label, :name?},
]
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stream(query, graph, opts \\ [])

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Returns a Stream for the execution of the given query against the given graph.

Just like on execute/3 the query can be given directly as RDF.Query.BGP struct created with one of the builder functions in this module or as basic graph pattern expression accepted by bgp/1.

The stream of solutions for variable bindings will be returned in a :ok tuple. In case of an error a :error tuple is returned.

Example

Let's assume we have an example_graph with these triples:

@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix ex:   <http://example.com/> .

ex:Outlaw
  foaf:name   "Johnny Lee Outlaw" ;
  foaf:mbox   <mailto:jlow@example.com> .

ex:Goodguy
  foaf:name   "Peter Goodguy" ;
  foaf:mbox   <mailto:peter@example.org> ;
  foaf:friend ex:Outlaw .
iex> {:ok, stream} = {:_, FOAF.name, :name?} |> RDF.Query.stream(example_graph())
...> Enum.to_list(stream)
[%{name: ~L"Peter Goodguy"}, %{name: ~L"Johnny Lee Outlaw"}]

iex> {:ok, stream} = [
...>   {:_, FOAF.name, :name?},
...>   {:_, FOAF.mbox, :mbox?},
...> ] |> RDF.Query.stream(example_graph())
...> Enum.take(stream, 1)
[
  %{name: ~L"Peter Goodguy", mbox: ~I<mailto:peter@example.org>},
]
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stream!(query, graph, opts \\ [])

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Returns a Stream for the execution of the given query against the given graph.

As opposed to stream/3 this function returns the stream directly or fails with an exception.