Refactorer.java

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package org.apache.stanbol.rules.refactor.api;

import org.apache.clerezza.commons.rdf.Graph;
import org.apache.clerezza.commons.rdf.Graph;
import org.apache.clerezza.commons.rdf.IRI;
import org.apache.stanbol.rules.base.api.NoSuchRecipeException;
import org.apache.stanbol.rules.base.api.Recipe;
import org.apache.stanbol.rules.base.api.RuleStore;

/**
 * The refactorer provides methods for performing ontology refactorings. Refactoring are performed using
 * recipes that contain sets of rules that describe the refactoring to do.
 * 
 * @author anuzzolese
 * 
 */
public interface Refactorer {

    /**
     * Fetch the mgraph with the selected uri from the storage.
     * 
     * @param uriRef
     *            {@link IRI}
     * @return the {@link Graph}.
     */
    Graph getRefactoredDataSet(IRI uriRef);

    /**
     * The refactoring is perfomed by the {@code Refactorer} by invoking this method. The {@code datasetID}
     * identifies dataset to which apply the refactoring. {@code refactoredDataSetID} identifies the new
     * refactored dataset in the store. {@code recipeID} identifies the ID of the recipe in the
     * {@link RuleStore},
     * 
     * @param refactoredDataSetID
     *            {@link IRI}
     * @param datasetID
     *            {@link IRI}
     * @param recipeIRI
     *            {@link IRI}
     */
    void graphRefactoring(IRI refactoredOntologyID, IRI datasetID, IRI recipeID) throws RefactoringException,
                                                                                         NoSuchRecipeException;

    /**
     * The refactoring is perfomed by the {@code Refactorer} by invoking this method. The {@code datasetURI}
     * is the URI of an RDF graph in KReS and the {@code recipe} is the recipe that needs to be applied to RDF
     * graph in order to obtain the refactoring.
     * 
     * @param datasetURI
     *            {@link IRI}
     * @param recipe
     *            {@link IRI}
     * @return the refactored {@link Graph}
     * @throws RefactoringException
     * @throws NoSuchRecipeException
     */
    Graph graphRefactoring(IRI datasetID, IRI recipeID) throws RefactoringException,
                                                                        NoSuchRecipeException;

    /**
     * The refactoring is perfomed by the {@code Refactorer} by invoking this method. The {@code datasetURI}
     * is the URI of an RDF graph in KReS and the {@code recipe} is the recipe that needs to be applied to RDF
     * graph in order to obtain the refactoring.
     * 
     * @param datasetID
     *            {@link Graph}
     * @param recipe
     *            {@link Recipe}
     * @return the refactored {@link Graph}
     * @throws SemionRefactoringException
     * @throws NoSuchRecipeException
     */
    Graph graphRefactoring(Graph dataset, Recipe recipe) throws RefactoringException;

}