com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model
Interface ModelGetter

All Known Subinterfaces:

ModelMaker, ModelSource

public interface ModelGetter

A ModelGetter object can retrieve a Model given a URL for it. If it doesn't have such a Model, it returns null.

ModelGetters are very weakly constrained. They need not contain any models at all; they may forget models they have just delivered; they may deliver different models given the same URL. They are constrained to deliver an "appropriate" model for the URL, however - whatever they return should be strongly related to the RDF which might, at some time or another, be retrieved from that URL.

Author:

kers

Method Summary

Model	getModel(String URL) Answer a Model whose content is that associated with the URL, if possible, and otherwise answer null.
Model	getModel(String URL, ModelReader loadIfAbsent) Answer a model appropriate for URL, If none is to hand, and it's possible to create one, create it and load it using loadIfAbsent.

Method Detail

getModel

Model getModel(String URL)

Answer a Model whose content is that associated with the URL, if possible, and otherwise answer null.

getModel

Model getModel(String URL,
               ModelReader loadIfAbsent)

Answer a model appropriate for URL, If none is to hand, and it's possible to create one, create it and load it using loadIfAbsent. Otherwise throw CannotCreateException. This method never returns null.