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RDF4j .ttl file filter IF statement


I am having problem during compilation. Can you help to figure out the problem please?

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public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

    File dir = new File("C:data\\test");

    String[] fileNames = dir.list();
    FileWriter outFile = new FileWriter("out.ttl");

    RDFWriter writer = org.eclipse.rdf4j.rio.Rio.createWriter(RDFFormat.TURTLE, outFile );

        writer.startRDF();
    for (String fileName : fileNames) {
        System.out.println("Reading from " + fileName);

        File f = new File(dir, fileName);

        Model data = Rio.parse(new FileInputStream(f), "", RDFFormat.TURTLE);
        for (Statement st: data) {
            if ( "efrbroo:F22_Self-Contained_Expression" != null ) { 
                        writer.handleStatement(st);
            }

        }
    }

    writer.endRDF();

}

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The initial question with this problem is here: RDF4J data merge


Solution

  • You are looping over Statement objects, which are the Java representation of an RDF statement, or "triple". It has a subject (available via Statement.getSubject()), a predicate (Statement.getPredicate()) and an object (Statement.getObject()). See https://rdf4j.eclipse.org/documentation/getting-started/ a more detailed introduction to this.

    For example, if you wanted to remove all triples that had the IRI http://example.org/F22_Self-Contained_Expression as their object, you'd do something like this:

     IRI f22SelfContainedExpression = SimpleValueFactory.getInstance().createIRI("http://example.org/F22_Self-Contained_Expression"); 
    
     ... 
    
     if (!st.getObject().equals(f22SelfContainedExpression)) {
          writer.handleStatement(st);
     }