org.openrdf.sail.config
Interface SailFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

DirectTypeHierarchyInferencerFactory, ForwardChainingRDFSInferencerFactory, MemoryStoreFactory, NativeStoreFactory, RdbmsStoreFactory

public interface SailFactory

A SailFactory takes care of creating and initializing a specific type of Sails based on RDF configuration data. SailFactory's are used by the SailRepositoryFactory to create specific Sails and to initialize them based on the configuration data that iis supplied to it, for example in a server environment.

Author:

Arjohn Kampman

Method Summary

SailImplConfig	getConfig()
Sail	getSail(SailImplConfig config) Returns a Sail instance that has been initialized using the supplied configuration data.
String	getSailType() Returns the type of the Sails that this factory creates.

Method Detail

getSailType

String getSailType()

Returns the type of the Sails that this factory creates. Sail types are used for identification and should uniquely identify specific implementations of the Sail API. This type can be equal to the fully qualified class name of the Sail, but this is not required.

getConfig

SailImplConfig getConfig()

getSail

Sail getSail(SailImplConfig config)
             throws SailConfigException

Returns a Sail instance that has been initialized using the supplied configuration data.

Parameters:

config - TODO

Returns:

The created (but un-initialized) Sail.

Throws:

SailConfigException - If no Sail could be created due to invalid or incomplete configuration data.