com.hp.hpl.mesa.rdf.jena.model
Interface Bag

All Superinterfaces:

Container, RDFNode, Resource

All Known Implementing Classes:

BagImpl, EnhBag

public interface Bag

extends Container

An RDF Bag container.

This interface defines methods for accessing RDF Bag resources. These methods operate on the RDF statements contained in a model. The Bag implementation may cache state from the underlying model, so objects should not be added to or removed a the Bag by directly manipulating its properties, whilst the Bag is being accessed through this interface.

When a member is deleted from a Bag using this interface, or an iterator returned through this interface, all the other members with higher ordinals are renumbered using an implementation dependendent algorithm.

Version:

Release='$Name: $' Revision='$Revision: 1.1 $' Date='$Date: 2001/01/05 14:16:42 $'

Author:

bwm

Method Summary

Container

remove(Statement s) Remove a value from the container.

Methods inherited from interface com.hp.hpl.mesa.rdf.jena.model.Container

add, add, add, add, add, add, add, add, add, contains, contains, contains, contains, contains, contains, contains, contains, contains, iterator, size

Methods inherited from interface com.hp.hpl.mesa.rdf.jena.model.Resource

abort, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, addProperty, begin, commit, equals, getId, getLocalName, getModel, getNameSpace, getProperty, getURI, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, hasProperty, isAnon, listProperties, listProperties, removeProperties, toString

Method Detail

remove

public Container remove(Statement s)
                 throws RDFException

Remove a value from the container.

The predicate of the statement s identifies the ordinal of the value to be removed. Once removed, the values in the container with a higher ordinal value are renumbered. The renumbering algorithm is implementation dependent.

Specified by:

remove in interface Container

Parameters:

s - The statement to be removed from the model.

Returns:

this container to enable cascading calls.

Throws:

RDFException - Generic RDF Exception