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Reputation: 41

How can I modify or remove properties values? - Jena API

I'm using Jena. I would like to know if there is a method that allows to modify or remove properties values of an instance?

Thanks

Upvotes: 4

Views: 3443

Answers (4)

Stephen C
Stephen C

Reputation: 718708

It depends which Jena API you are using. For instance, if you are using Jena 3.0 and the Model API, you can use Model.remove(Statement) to remove a property by choosing the appropriate subject/predicate/object for the Statement. Modification can be achieved by removing the old version of a Statement and adding the new version.

Upvotes: 2

Yauhen
Yauhen

Reputation: 2535

I had the similar task: I need to delete the property with the specified value. Hope the following code snippet will help someone. 

  public void removeLabel(String language, String value) {
        NodeIterator nodeIterator = resource.getModel().listObjectsOfProperty(RDFS.label);
        RDFNode foundToDelete = null;
        while (nodeIterator.hasNext()) {
            RDFNode next = nodeIterator.next();
            boolean langsAreIdentical = next.asLiteral().getLanguage().equals(language);
            boolean valuesAreIdentical = next.asLiteral().getLexicalForm().equals(value);
            if (langsAreIdentical && valuesAreIdentical) {
                foundToDelete = next;
                break;
            }
        }
        resource.getModel().remove(resource, RDFS.label, foundToDelete);
    }

Upvotes: 0

Juri Pyykkö
Juri Pyykkö

Reputation: 129

To only remove the statement itself, i.e. the relation between the instance and the property value, you can use: OntResource.removeProperty(Property, RDFNode)

If you want to remove the property value altogether, i.e. the value and all relations to it, you can use: OntResource.remove()

Upvotes: 0

Ian Dickinson
Ian Dickinson

Reputation: 13295

Statements in Jena are, by design, immutable. To change the value of a property p of some subject s, you need to add a new statement with the same subject and predicate, and remove the old statement. This is always true in Jena, even if the API sometimes hides this from you. For example, OntResource and its subclasses have a variety of setProperty variants, but under the hood these are performing the same add-the-new-triple-and-delete-the-old process.

Upvotes: 4

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