Sparql¶

Important

Unlike other methods, this method does not work incrementally: each time the source trace is modified, the whole computed trace is re-generated.

Therefore, you should consider using the incremental sparql method instead, unless its limitations are too constraining for your needs.

This method applies a SPARQL CONSTRUCT query to the source trace.

sources:

1

parameters:

model:	the model of the computed trace
origin:	the origin of the computed trace
sparql:	a SPARQL CONSTRUCT query (required)
scope:	graph against which the SPARQL query must be executed (see below)
inherit:	inherit properties from source obsel (see below)

extensible:

yes (see below)

If parameter model (resp. origin) is not provided, the model (resp. origin) of the source trace will be used instead.

The scope parameter accepts three values:

trace (the default): the SPARQL query only has access to the obsels of the source trace.*
base: the default graph is the union of all the information contained in the base (including subbases). The GRAPH keyword can be used to filter information per graph. Note that this is concetually clean, but very inefficient with the current implementation.
store: the default graph is the entire content of the underlying triple-sore. The GRAPH keyword can be used to filter information per graph. Note that this is only safe if all users are allowed to access any stored information. For this reason, this option is disable by default. To enable it, the configuration sparql.allow-scope-store must be set to true.

If inherit is set (with any value), then the produced obsels will inherit from their source obsel all the properties that are not explicitly set by the CONSTRUCT. That includes properties in the ktbs namespace. This allows to greatly simplify SPARQL queries that are mostly filtering and or augmenting obsels, rather than synthetizing new ones. Note however that if the obsel has several source obsels, the behabiour is unspecified. Note also that this mechanism can access the source obsels regardless of the scope.

The SPARQL query can contain magic strings of the form %(param_name)s, that will be replaced by the value of an additional parameter named param_name. Note that the following special parameters are automatically provided:

special parameter name	replaced by
`__destination__`	The URI of the computed trace.
`__source__`	The URI of the source trace.