How to set a property path in Jena's Sparql API?

Question

I would like to avoid passing SPARQL queries around as Strings. Therefore I use Jena's API for creating my queries. Now I need a PropertyPath in my query, but I can't find any Java class supporting this. Can you give me a hint?

Here's some example code where I would like to insert this (Jena 3.0.1):

private Query buildQuery(final String propertyPath) {
    ElementTriplesBlock triplesBlock = new ElementTriplesBlock();
    triplesBlock.addTriple(
            new Triple(NodeFactory.createURI(this.titleUri.toString()),
                    //How can I set a property path as predicate here?
                    NodeFactory.???,
                    NodeFactory.createVariable("o"))
    );
    final Query query = buildSelectQuery(triplesBlock);
    return query;
}

private Query buildSelectQuery(final ElementTriplesBlock queryBlock) {
    final Query query = new Query();
    query.setQuerySelectType();
    query.setQueryResultStar(true);
    query.setDistinct(true);
    query.setQueryPattern(queryBlock);
    return query;
}

Answer 1

You can use PathFactory to create property paths

Consider the graph below:

@prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>.
@prefix ex: <http://example.com/>.

    ex:Manager ex:homeOffice ex:HomeOffice
    ex:HomeOffice dc:title "Home Office Title"

Suppose you want to create a pattern like:

?x ex:homeOffice/dc:title ?title

The code below achieves it:

 //create the path
Path exhomeOffice = PathFactory.pathLink(NodeFactory.createURI("http://example.com/homeOffice"));
 Path dcTitle = PathFactory.pathLink(NodeFactory.createURI("http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/title"));
Path fullPath = PathFactory.pathSeq(exhomeOffice,dcTitle);
TriplePath t = new TriplePath(Var.alloc("x"),fullPath,Var.alloc("title"));