NAME RDF::Trine::Shortcuts - totally unauthorised module for cheats and charlatans VERSION 0.01 SYNOPSIS use RDF::Trine::Shortcuts; my $model = rdf_parse('http://example.com/data.rdf'); my $query = 'ASK WHERE {?person a }'; if (rdf_query($query, $model)) { print "Document describes a person.\n"; } else { print "Document doesn't describe a person.\n"; print "What does it describe? Let's see...\n"; print rdf_string($model); } DESCRIPTION This module exports three functions which simplify frequently performed tasks using RDF::Trine and RDF::Query. In addition, because it calls "use RDF::Trine", "use RDF::Query", and "use RDF::Query::Client", your code doesn't need to. "rdf_parse($data)" $data can be some serialised RDF (in RDF/XML, Turtle, RDF/JSON, or any other format that RDF::Trine::Parser supports); or a URI (string or URI object); or an HTTP::Message object; or a hashref (as per RDF::Trine::Model's add_hashref method); or a file name or an open file handle; or an RDF::Trine::Iterator::Graph. Essentially it could be anything you could reasonably expect to grab RDF from. It can be undef. The function returns an RDF::Trine::Model. There are additional optional named arguments, of which the two most useful are probably 'base', which sets the base URI for any relative URI references; and 'type', which indicates the media type of the input (though the function can usually guess this quite reliably). $model = rdf_parse($input, 'base' => 'http://example.com/', 'type' => 'application/rdf+xml'); Other named arguments include 'model' to provide an existing RDF::Trine::Model to add statements to; and 'context' for providing a context/graph URI. "rdf_string($model, $format)" Serialises an RDF::Trine::Model to a string. $model is the model to serialise. If $model is not an RDF::Trine::Model object, then it's automatically passed through rdf_parse first. $format is the format to use. One of 'RDFXML' (the default), 'RDFJSON', 'Canonical NTriples' or 'NTriples'. If $format is not one of the above, then the function will try to guess what you meant. "rdf_query($sparql, $endpoint)" $sparql is a SPARQL query to be run at $endpoint. $endpoint may be either an endpoint URI (string or URI object) or a model supported by RDF::Query (e.g. an RDF::Trine::Model.) If the SPARQL query returns a boolean (i.e. an ASK query), then this function returns a boolean. If the query returns a graph (i.e. CONSTRUCT or DESCRIBE), then this function returns an RDF::Trine::Model corresponding to the graph. Otherwise (i.e. SELECT) it returns an RDF::Trine::Iterator object. For queries which return a graph, an optional $model parameter can be passed containing an existing RDF::Trine::Model to add statements to: rdf_parse("CONSTRUCT {?s ?p ?o} WHERE {?s ?p ?o}", 'http://example.com/sparql', model => $model); BUGS Please report any bugs to . SEE ALSO RDF::Trine, RDF::Query, RDF::Query::Client. . AUTHOR Toby Inkster . COPYRIGHT Copyright 2010 Toby Inkster This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.