I want to delete all the triples in my OWLIM-lite store using Java/Sesame API
I tried:
DELETE WHERE { ?s ?p ?o } ;
in all variants (with or withour prefixes) like so:
DELETE * WHERE { ?s ?p ?o } ;
DELETE { ?s ?p ?o } WHERE { ?s ?p ?o } ;
WITH <...> DELETE * WHERE { ?s ?p ?o } ;
...
but none of these queries seem to work. I always get the same exception:
org.openrdf.query.MalformedQueryException: Encountered " "delete" "DELETE "" at line 1, column 1.
Was expecting one of:
"base" ...
"prefix" ...
"select" ...
"construct" ...
"describe" ...
"ask" ...
It looks like it's a similar problem as this one: MALFORMED QUERY: Encountered " "delete" "DELETE except all the other queries (SELECT) work perfectly fine.
What am I doing wrong?
You are probably using an incorrect endpoint location for your updates. SPARQL update requests should be sent to openrdf-sesame/repository/<repid>/statements, while SPARQL query requests should go to openrdf-sesame/repository/<repid>.