prajna.ontology

Class VarOwlThing

java.lang.Object

prajna.data.rdf.RdfThing

prajna.ontology.VarOwlThing

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

public class VarOwlThing
extends RdfThing

RdfThing representing an unknown OwlThing object of a particular Owl class The name of this Thing can be used as a variable name.

Author:

Edward Swing

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
VarOwlThing(java.lang.String name, OwlClass cls) Create a ClassVarThing with the given variable name and Owl class

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
OwlClass	getOwlClass() Get the OwlClass for this thing
boolean	matches(RdfThing thing) Return whether this thing matches another thing.
void	setOwlClass(OwlClass cls) Set the OwlClass for this thing
java.lang.String	toString() Return the string representation of this variable OwlThing

Methods inherited from class prajna.data.rdf.RdfThing

getName, getUri, isVariableFlag, setName, setUri, setVariableFlag

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

VarOwlThing

public VarOwlThing(java.lang.String name,
           OwlClass cls)

Create a ClassVarThing with the given variable name and Owl class

Parameters:

name - the variable name

cls - the Owl class

Method Detail

getOwlClass

public OwlClass getOwlClass()

Get the OwlClass for this thing

Returns:

the OwlClass

matches

public boolean matches(RdfThing thing)

Return whether this thing matches another thing. This class checks to determine if the argument is an instance of the OwlClass for this VarOwlThing. If the OwlClass is null, then this method will always return true.

Overrides:

matches in class RdfThing

Parameters:

thing - the thing to check for matching.

Returns:

true if this thing matches the other thing, false otherwise.

setOwlClass

public void setOwlClass(OwlClass cls)

Set the OwlClass for this thing

Parameters:

cls - the OwlClass

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Return the string representation of this variable OwlThing

Overrides:

toString in class RdfThing

Returns:

the string representation of this VarOwlThing