edu.stanford.smi.protegex.owl.ui
Interface TripleSelectable

All Superinterfaces:

edu.stanford.smi.protege.util.Selectable

All Known Implementing Classes:

ClassTree, InstancesList, MultiResourceList, SymbolTable

public interface TripleSelectable

extends edu.stanford.smi.protege.util.Selectable

A common interface for user interface components that can select triples from an ontology.

Author:

Holger Knublauch

Method Summary

List	getPrototypeTriples() Gets triples with an empty object or subject, indicating the typical values of this.
List	getSelectedTriples() Gets the selected triples in an order that is meaningful to the component.
void	setSelectedTriples(Collection triples) Attempts to select given Triples in this.

Methods inherited from interface edu.stanford.smi.protege.util.Selectable

addSelectionListener, clearSelection, getSelection, notifySelectionListeners, removeSelectionListener

Method Detail

getPrototypeTriples

public List getPrototypeTriples()

Gets triples with an empty object or subject, indicating the typical values of this. For example, if this component displays the rdfs:comment of the resource Person, then the result would be the Triple (Person, rdfs:comment, null).

Returns:

a List of Triples

getSelectedTriples

public List getSelectedTriples()

Gets the selected triples in an order that is meaningful to the component.

Returns:

a List of Triples

setSelectedTriples

public void setSelectedTriples(Collection triples)

Attempts to select given Triples in this. The method may just do nothing if none of the triple is not shown.

Parameters:

triples - the Triples to show