ladish/libslv2/slv2/query.h

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/* LibSLV2
* Copyright (C) 2006 Dave Robillard <drobilla@connect.carleton.ca>
*
* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
* Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
* any later version.
*
* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
* ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
* for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
* with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
* 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
*/
#ifndef __SLV2_QUERY_H__
#define __SLV2_QUERY_H__
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
#include <rasqal.h>
#include "plugin.h"
#include "types.h"
/** \defgroup query SPARQL query helpers
*
* This part is in progress, incomplete, a random mishmash of crap that
* evolved along with my understanding of this rasqal library. Nothing
* to see here, move long now. Nothing to see here.
*
* Eventually this will contain functions that make it convenient for host
* authors to query plugins in ways libslv2 doesn't nicely wrap (eg. for
* extensions not (yet) supported by libslv2).
*
* @{
*/
/** Return a header for a SPARQL query on the given plugin.
*
* The returned header defines the namespace prefixes used in the standard
* (rdf: rdfs: doap: lv2:), plugin: as the plugin's URI, and data: as the
* URL of the plugin's RDF (Turtle) data file.
*
* Example query to get a plugin's doap:name using this header:
*
* <code>
* SELECT DISTINCT ?value FROM data: WHERE {
* plugin: doap:name ?value
* }
* </code>
*
* \return an unsigned (UTF-8) string which must be free()'d.
*/
unsigned char*
slv2_query_header(const SLV2Plugin* p);
/** Return a language filter for the given variable.
*
* If the environment variable $LANG is not set, returns NULL.
*
* \arg variable SPARQL variable, including "?" or "$" (eg "?value").
*
* This needs to be put inside the WHERE block, after the triples.
*
* eg. FILTER( LANG(?value) = "en" || LANG(?value) = "" )
*/
unsigned char*
slv2_query_lang_filter(const uchar* variable);
/** Run a SPARQL query on a plugin's data file.
*
* String arguments will be concatenated, allowing for variable substitution
* etc. (without having to define a token syntax and search the string for
* tokens, which would be slow).
*
* Header from slv2query_header will be prepended to passed query string.
* rasqal_init() must be called by the caller before calling this function.
*/
rasqal_query_results*
slv2_plugin_run_query(const SLV2Plugin* p,
const uchar* query_string, ...);
SLV2Property
slv2_query_get_results(rasqal_query_results* results);
/** Free an SLV2Property. */
void
slv2_property_free(SLV2Property);
/** @} */
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
#endif /* __SLV2_QUERY_H__ */