Currently, when I want to use, for example a local version of the NIF core ontology instead of the official version at /opt/nif-core.ttl, I can declare this using:
bin/rdf-unit -s /opt-nif-core.ttl -d /opt/nif-doc-to-test.ttl
But if I use a file URL, the initialisation fails - a org.aksw.rdfunit.io.reader.RDFDereferenceReader and org.aksw.rdfunit.io.reader.RDFaReader are tried, which both seem only to expect and accept RDF/XML:
bin/rdf-unit -s file:///opt-nif-core.ttl -d /opt/nif-doc-to-test.ttl <- fails
This specific issue should probably be fixed, but then still a user just wanting to re-route a single ontology to a local work-in-progress version would not be able to utilize the convenient automatic LOV-resolution for other vocabs appearing in the document ot validate.
I would propose a different approach, that introduced a new command line switch --prefix-remap:
Proposed semantics: Initialize the prefix <-> schema-uri BiMap as before, but afterwards merge the map provided from the command line into the default BiMap. This allows (as in the example scenario) easy-rerouting for test purposes and to specify additional prefixes for vacabularies that did not make it to LOV yet.
The -s switch could then really just expect prefix names (as many identifiers in the code already suggest), making its semantics clearer to follow by users and less error-prone to implement.
Currently, when I want to use, for example a local version of the NIF core ontology instead of the official version at
/opt/nif-core.ttl, I can declare this using:bin/rdf-unit -s /opt-nif-core.ttl -d /opt/nif-doc-to-test.ttlBut if I use a file URL, the initialisation fails - a
org.aksw.rdfunit.io.reader.RDFDereferenceReaderandorg.aksw.rdfunit.io.reader.RDFaReaderare tried, which both seem only to expect and acceptRDF/XML:bin/rdf-unit -s file:///opt-nif-core.ttl -d /opt/nif-doc-to-test.ttl<- failsThis specific issue should probably be fixed, but then still a user just wanting to re-route a single ontology to a local work-in-progress version would not be able to utilize the convenient automatic LOV-resolution for other vocabs appearing in the document ot validate.
I would propose a different approach, that introduced a new command line switch
--prefix-remap:bin/rdf-unit --prefix-map 'nif:/opt-nif-core.ttl' -d /opt/nif-doc-to-test.ttlProposed semantics: Initialize the prefix <-> schema-uri BiMap as before, but afterwards merge the map provided from the command line into the default BiMap. This allows (as in the example scenario) easy-rerouting for test purposes and to specify additional prefixes for vacabularies that did not make it to LOV yet.
The
-sswitch could then really just expect prefix names (as many identifiers in the code already suggest), making its semantics clearer to follow by users and less error-prone to implement.@jimkont What do you think?