termTemplates

Provides:

• A set of term templates allowing to match desired RDF named nodes, literals and quads. To be used mainly as rdfInterface\Dataset methods $filter parameter.
• A convenient methods for extracting single terms and/or their values from rdfInterface\Dataset.

Quad-matching classes

• termTemplates\QuadTemplate
• termTemplates\PredicateTemplate - a termTemplates\QuadTemplate variant skipping the subject (convenient for filtering the rdfInterface\DatasetNode)

Term-matching classes

(all classes in the termTemplate namespace)

Match by	Supported matchModes	Match both named nodes and literals	Match only named nodes	Match only literals	Remarks
term's string value	==, !=, <, >, <=, >=, starts, ends, contains, regex, any	ValueTemplate	NamedNodeTemplate	LiteralTemplate [1]
term's numeric value	==, !=, <, >, <=, >=, any	NA	NA	NumericTemplate	[2]

[1] Supports filtering also by literal's lang (using == and any operators) and datatype (only using == operator).

[2] Supports both strict and non-strict mode. In the strict mode comparison with literals with non-numeric datatype returns false no matter their value.

Other classes

• termTemplates\NotTemplate - negates the result of the equals() operation on a given rdfInterface\TermCompare object.
• termTemplates\AnyOfTemplate - matches terms being equal to any of given list of rdfInterface\TermCompare objects. as single rdfInterface\Term, single value, array of rdfInterface\Term or array of values.

Installation

• Obtain the Composer
• Run composer require sweetrdf/term-templates

Automatically generated documentation

https://sweetrdf.github.io/termTemplates/namespaces/termtemplates.html

It's very incomplete but better than nothing.
RdfInterface documentation is included which explains the most important design decisions.

Usage examples

Remarks:

• The comparison with term templates isn't symmetric! You should always call $termTemplate->equals($termToBeCompared) and never $termToBeCompared->equals($termTemplate). The latter one will always return false.
• See also here for examples of using term templates in conjuction with an RDF datasets.
• To run this examples an RDF terms factory is needed. Here we will use the one from the quickRdf library. You can install it with composer require sweetrdf/quick-rdf.
• In the examples below the comparison operators are specified by stating corresponding termTemplates\ValueTemplate class constants but you can also use corresponding constants values as listed in the table above (e.g. >= or regex).
• If you are tired with the long code, define class aliases, e.g. use termTemplates\QuadTemplate as QT;, use termTemplates\ValueTemplate as VT;, etc.

String values comparison

$df = new quickRdf\DataFactory();

$literals = [
    $df::literal('Lorem ipsum', 'lat'),
    $df::namedNode('http://ipsum.dolor/sit#amet'),
    $df::literal('foo bar'),
];

// find all terms containing 'ipsum'
// true, true, false
$tmplt = new termTemplates\ValueTemplate('ipsum', termTemplates\ValueTemplate::CONTAINS);
print_r(array_map(fn($x) => $tmplt->equals($x), $literals));

// find all literals containing 'ipsum'
// true, false, false
$tmplt = new termTemplates\LiteralTemplate('ipsum', termTemplates\ValueTemplate::CONTAINS);
print_r(array_map(fn($x) => $tmplt->equals($x), $literals));

// find all named nodes containing 'ipsum'
// false, true, false
$tmplt = new termTemplates\NamedNodeTemplate('ipsum', termTemplates\ValueTemplate::CONTAINS);
print_r(array_map(fn($x) => $tmplt->equals($x), $literals));

// find all literals in latin
// true, false, false
$tmplt = new termTemplates\LiteralTemplate(lang: 'lat');
print_r(array_map(fn($x) => $tmplt->equals($x), $literals));

// find all terms with string value lower than 'http'
// true, false, true
$tmplt = new termTemplates\LiteralTemplate('http', termTemplates\ValueTemplate::LOWER);
print_r(array_map(fn($x) => $tmplt->equals($x), $literals));

// find all terms matching a 'Lorem|foo' regular expression
// true, false, true
$tmplt = new termTemplates\ValueTemplate('/Lorem|foo/', termTemplates\ValueTemplate::REGEX);
print_r(array_map(fn($x) => $tmplt->equals($x), $literals));

// ValueTemplate, NamedNodeTemplate and LiteralTemplate can be passed multiple values
// In such a case condition needs to be fulfilled on any value
// true, true, false
$tmplt = new termTemplates\ValueTemplate(['Lorem ipsum', 'http://ipsum.dolor/sit#amet']);
print_r(array_map(fn($x) => $tmplt->equals($x), $literals));

Numeric values comparison

$df = new quickRdf\DataFactory();

$literals = [
    $df->literal('2'),
    $df->literal(3, null, 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#int'),
    $df->literal('1foo'),
    $df->literal('2', null, 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#int'),
    $df->namedNode('http://ipsum.dolor/sit#amet'),
];

// find terms with a value of 2
// true, false, false, true, false
$tmplt = new termTemplates\NumericTemplate(2);
print_r(array_map(fn($x) => $tmplt->equals($x), $literals));

// find terms with a value of 2 and enforce an RDF numeric type
// false, false, false, true, false
$tmplt = new termTemplates\NumericTemplate(2, strict: true);
print_r(array_map(fn($x) => $tmplt->equals($x), $literals));

// find terms with a value greate or equal than 3
// false, true, false, false, false
$tmplt = new termTemplates\NumericTemplate(3, termTemplates\ValueTemplate::GREATER_EQUAL);
print_r(array_map(fn($x) => $tmplt->equals($x), $literals));

// find all terms with numeric values
// true, true, false, true, false
$tmplt = new termTemplates\NumericTemplate(matchMode: termTemplates\ValueTemplate::ANY);
print_r(array_map(fn($x) => $tmplt->equals($x), $literals));

// find all numeric terms with values not equal 2
// false, true, false, false, false
$tmplt  = new termTemplates\NumericTemplate(2, termTemplates\ValueTemplate::NOT_EQUALS);
print_r(array_map(fn($x) => $tmplt->equals($x), $literals));

Negation and aggregation

$literals = [
    $df->literal('2'),
    $df->literal(3, null, 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#int'),
    $df->literal('1foo'),
    $df->literal('2', null, 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#int'),
    $df->namedNode('http://ipsum.dolor/sit#amet'),
];

// find all terms which value is not equal 2 (also non-numeric and non-literal ones)
// false, true, true, false, true
$tmplt = new termTemplates\NumericTemplate(2);
$tmplt = new termTemplates\NotTemplate($tmplt);
print_r(array_map(fn($x) => $tmplt->equals($x), $literals));

// find all terms with numeric value of 2 and all named nodes
// true, false, false, true, true
$tmplt = new termTemplates\AnyOfTemplate([
    new termTemplates\NumericTemplate(2),
    new termTemplates\NamedNodeTemplate()
]);
print_r(array_map(fn($x) => $tmplt->equals($x), $literals));

Quads comparison

$df = new quickRdf\DataFactory();

// find all quads with a literal value containing 'foo'
$tmplt = new termTemplates\QuadTemplate(object: new termTemplates\LiteralTemplate('foo', termTemplates\ValueTemplate::CONTAINS));

// find all quads with a given subject within a given graph
$tmplt = new termTemplates\QuadTemplate(
    subject: 'http://desired/subject',
    graph: 'http://desired/graph'
);

// find all quads with a given predicate
$tmplt = new termTemplates\QuadTemplate(predicate: 'http://desired/predicate');
//or
$tmplt = new termTemplates\PredicateTemplate('http://desired/predicate');

// both QuadTemplate and PredicateTemplate support negation, e.g.
// find all quads with subject different than 'http://unwanted/subject'
$tmplt = new termTemplates\QuadTemplate('http://desired/predicate', negate: true);