org.w3c.ddr.simple
Interface PropertyRef

public interface PropertyRef

Represents a Property / Aspect combination. The Property is as defined by the PropertyName class, comprising a term from a vocabulary and a namespace for that vocabulary.

Author:

Jo Rabin (dotMobi),
Jose Manuel Cantera Fonseca (Telefonica I+D),
Rotan Hanrahan (MobileAware),
Ignacio Marin (Fundacion CTIC)
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See Also:

Service.newPropertyRef(org.w3c.ddr.simple.PropertyName), Service.newPropertyRef(org.w3c.ddr.simple.PropertyName, String localAspectName), PropertyName

Field Summary

static String

NULL_ASPECT This constant value is used to support Vocabularies that do not distinguish Aspects.

Method Summary

String	getAspectName() The name of the aspect, according to a vocabulary of aspect terms.
String	getLocalPropertyName() The name of the property, according to a vocabulary of property terms.
String	getNamespace() The namespace of the property and aspect terms.

Field Detail

NULL_ASPECT

static final String NULL_ASPECT

This constant value is used to support Vocabularies that do not distinguish Aspects.

The value of this constant shall be "__NULL".

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getLocalPropertyName

String getLocalPropertyName()

The name of the property, according to a vocabulary of property terms.

Returns:

A term from a vocabulary (for use as a property identifier).

getAspectName

String getAspectName()

The name of the aspect, according to a vocabulary of aspect terms.

Returns:

A term from a vocabulary (for use as an Aspect identifier).

getNamespace

String getNamespace()

The namespace of the property and aspect terms. In the Simple API, the namespace of the Aspect is determined by the namespace of the Property. Future APIs are expected to relax this relationship to permit Aspects from other namespaces.

Returns:

An IRI.