Package org.semanticweb.owlapi.model

Interface OWLDocumentFormatFactory

All Superinterfaces:

MIMETypeAware, Serializable, Supplier<OWLDocumentFormat>

All Known Implementing Classes:

DLSyntaxDocumentFormatFactory, DLSyntaxHTMLDocumentFormatFactory, FunctionalSyntaxDocumentFormatFactory, KRSS2DocumentFormatFactory, KRSSDocumentFormatFactory, LabelFunctionalDocumentFormatFactory, LatexAxiomsListDocumentFormatFactory, LatexDocumentFormatFactory, ManchesterSyntaxDocumentFormatFactory, OBODocumentFormatFactory, OWLDocumentFormatFactoryImpl, OWLXMLDocumentFormatFactory, RDFXMLDocumentFormatFactory, TurtleDocumentFormatFactory

public interface OWLDocumentFormatFactory
extends Serializable, Supplier<OWLDocumentFormat>, MIMETypeAware

Factory for ontology formats.

Since:

4.0.0

Author:

Peter Ansell [email protected]

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
OWLDocumentFormat	createFormat()	Create a new format.
String	getKey()	Returns the key for the OWLOntologyFormat that this class is a factory for without necessarily creating an instance of the OWLOntologyFormat.
boolean	isTextual()	Returns true if this format can be represented using textual characters.

Methods inherited from interface org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.MIMETypeAware

getDefaultMIMEType, getMIMETypes, handlesMimeType

Methods inherited from interface java.util.function.Supplier

get

Method Detail

createFormat

OWLDocumentFormat createFormat()

Create a new format. Note that ontology formats currently carry prefix information for the ontology, so an instance cannot, in general, be reused for multiple parsings.

Returns:

new storer

getKey

String getKey()

Returns the key for the OWLOntologyFormat that this class is a factory for without necessarily creating an instance of the OWLOntologyFormat.

Returns:

The key for the OWLOntologyFormat.

isTextual

boolean isTextual()

Returns true if this format can be represented using textual characters. Returns false if this format must be dealt with using binary methods.

Returns:

True if this format is textual, and false if it is a binary format.