All Known Subinterfaces:

BlankNode, BlankNodeOrIRI, IRI, JsonLdBlankNode, JsonLdIRI, JsonLdLiteral, JsonLdTerm, Literal, RDF4JBlankNode, RDF4JBlankNodeOrIRI, RDF4JIRI, RDF4JLiteral, RDF4JTerm, SimpleRDF.SimpleRDFTerm

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractRDFTerm, BlankNodeImpl, BlankNodeImpl, IRIImpl, IRIImpl, JsonLdBlankNodeImpl, JsonLdIRIImpl, JsonLdLiteralImpl, JsonLdTermImpl, LiteralImpl, LiteralImpl, Types, W3CRDFSyntax.FormatIRI
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public interface RDFTerm
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An RDF-1.1 Term, as defined by RDF-1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax, a W3C Recommendation published on 25 February 2014.
A RDFTerm object in Commons RDF is considered immutable, that is, over its life time it will have consistent behaviour for its equals(Object) and hashCode(), and objects returned from its getter methods (e.g. IRI.getIRIString() and Literal.getLanguageTag()) will have consistent equals(Object) behaviour.
Note that methods in RDFTerm and its Commons RDF specialisations IRI, BlankNode and Literal are not required to return object identical (==) instances as long as they are equivalent according to their Object.equals(Object). Further specialisations may provide additional methods that are documented to be mutable.
Methods in RDFTerm and its Commons RDF specialisations IRI, BlankNode and Literal are thread-safe, however further specialisations may add additional methods that are documented to not be thread-safe.
RDFTerms can be safely used in hashing collections like HashSet and HashMap.
Any RDFTerm can be used interchangeably across Commons RDF implementations.

See Also:

RDF-1.1 Term

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`boolean`	`equals(java.lang.Object other)`	Check it this RDFTerm is equal to another RDFTerm.
`int`	`hashCode()`	Calculate a hash code for this RDFTerm.
`java.lang.String`	`ntriplesString()`	Return the term serialised as specified by the RDF-1.1 N-Triples Canonical form.

- Method Detail
  - ntriplesString
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java.lang.String ntriplesString()
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    Return the term serialised as specified by the RDF-1.1 N-Triples Canonical form.
    
    Returns:
    
    The term serialised as RDF-1.1 N-Triples.
    
    See Also:
    
    RDF-1.1 N-Triples Canonical form
  - equals
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boolean equals(java.lang.Object other)
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    Check it this RDFTerm is equal to another RDFTerm.
    If this object is an IRI, equality is checked using IRI.equals(Object), or if this object is a BlankNode, equality is checked using BlankNode.equals(Object), or if this object is a Literal, equality is checked using Literal.equals(Object).
    Implementations MUST also override hashCode() so that two equal Literals produce the same hash code.
    
    Overrides:
    
    equals in class java.lang.Object
    
    Parameters:
    
    other - Another object
    
    Returns:
    
    true if other is a RDFTerm and is equal to this
    
    See Also:
    
    IRI.equals(Object), BlankNode.equals(Object), Literal.equals(Object)
  - hashCode
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int hashCode()
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    Calculate a hash code for this RDFTerm.
    As an RDFTerm is immutable, this method will always return the same hashCode over the lifetime of this object.
    This method MUST be implemented in conjunction with equals(Object) so that two equal RDFTerm produce the same hash code.
    
    Overrides:
    
    hashCode in class java.lang.Object
    
    Returns:
    
    a hash code value for this RDFTerm.
    
    See Also:
    
    IRI.hashCode(), Literal.hashCode(), BlankNode.hashCode()

Interface RDFTerm

Method Summary

Method Detail

ntriplesString

equals

hashCode