Package org.semanticweb.owlapi.model

Interface HasApplyChange

All Known Subinterfaces:
OWLMutableOntology, OWLOntology, OWLOntologyManager
All Known Implementing Classes:
ConcurrentOWLOntologyImpl, OWLImmutableOntologyImpl, OWLOntologyImpl, OWLOntologyManagerImpl
Functional Interface:
This is a functional interface and can therefore be used as the assignment target for a lambda expression or method reference.
@FunctionalInterface public interface HasApplyChange
Since:
3.5
Author:
Matthew Horridge, Stanford University, Bio-Medical Informatics Research Group

  • Method Summary

    Modifier and Type
    Method
    Description
    ChangeApplied
    applyChange(OWLOntologyChange change)
    A convenience method that applies just one change to an ontology.

  • Method Details

    • applyChange

      ChangeApplied applyChange(OWLOntologyChange change)
      A convenience method that applies just one change to an ontology. When this method is used through an OWLOntologyManager implementation, the instance used should be the one that the ontology returns through the getOWLOntologyManager() call. The reason is that some changes, e.g., change of ontology id and change of imports directives, affect data that only that manager instance knows about, such as the imports closure; changes of ontology id through the wrong manager will make the ontology unreachable through its new id in the manager associated with the ontology. Configuration for loading and saving parameters is also held by the manager, if not explicitly specified for the ontology. While the change might be successful, other bugs might be made apparent later.
      Parameters:
      change - The change to be applied
      Returns:
      ChangeApplied.SUCCESSFULLY if the change is applied with success, ChangeApplied.UNSUCCESSFULLY otherwise.
      Throws:
      OWLOntologyChangeException - If the change could not be applied. See subclasses of ontology change exception for more specific details.
      OWLOntologyRenameException - If one or more of the changes is an instance of SetOntologyID where the new OWLOntologyID already belongs to an ontology managed by this manager.