org.openrdf.model
Interface URI

All Superinterfaces:

Resource, Serializable, Value

All Known Implementing Classes:

MemURI, NativeURI, RdbmsURI, URIImpl

public interface URI
extends Resource

A URI. A URI consists of a namespace and a local name, which are derived from a URI string by splitting it in two using the following algorithm:

• Split after the first occurrence of the '#' character,
• If this fails, split after the last occurrence of the '/' character,
• If this fails, split after the last occurrence of the ':' character.

The last step should never fail as every legal (full) URI contains at least one ':' character to seperate the scheme from the rest of the URI. The implementation should check this upon object creation.

See Also:

URIUtil.getLocalNameIndex(String)

Method Summary

boolean	equals(Object o) Compares a URI object to another object.
String	getLocalName() Gets the local name of this URI.
String	getNamespace() Gets the namespace of this URI.
int	hashCode() The hash code of a URI is defined as the hash code of its String-representation: toString().hashCode.
String	toString() Returns the String-representation of this URI.

Methods inherited from interface org.openrdf.model.Value

stringValue

Method Detail

toString

String toString()

Returns the String-representation of this URI.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

The String-representation of this URI.

getNamespace

String getNamespace()

Gets the namespace of this URI. The namespace is defined as per the algorithm described in the class documentation.

Returns:

The URI's namespace.

getLocalName

String getLocalName()

Gets the local name of this URI. The local name is defined as per the algorithm described in the class documentation.

Returns:

The URI's local name.

equals

boolean equals(Object o)

Compares a URI object to another object.

Overrides:

equals in class Object

Parameters:

o - The object to compare this URI to.

Returns:

true if the other object is an instance of URI and their String-representations are equal, false otherwise.

hashCode

int hashCode()

The hash code of a URI is defined as the hash code of its String-representation: toString().hashCode.

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object

Returns:

A hash code for the URI.