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OWLClass representation in JSON format

I know it is possible to save the whole ontology in JSON, would it be possible to convert single OWLClass to JSON? Something like:

OWLClass cl = ...;
JSONObject obj = cl.toJSON();
Thanks!
Solution

  • There's no ready method to do that in OWLAPI, however an OWLClass consists of just an IRI, whose only data is a string. So it is pretty simple to serialize a single object as a string plus a type specification, and deserialize accordingly.

    An introduction to custom serialization for JSON is available here