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TemplatedLink cannot formally have supportedOperation #198

Closed alien-mcl closed 4 years ago

alien-mcl commented 5 years ago

Summary

The hydra:TemplatedLink is not formally considered a hydra:Link so it cannot formally have any of the properties that are allowed for hydra:Link. While in RDF each property can be used on every resource, it is still preferred to explicitly define some of the relations between terms so the client implementation is easier and the data model is stable.

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The hydra:TemplatedLink is sub-classed from hydra:Link in this template making it formally also a hydra:Link which enables it to all properties define for hydra:Link with either rdfs:domain or schema:domainIncludes.

alien-mcl commented 4 years ago

I've replaced approach in this PR with last commit. This is due to potential issue raised by @angelo-v on one of the occasions. Previous approach sub-classed hydra:TemplatedLink from hydra:Link. While convenient, it could cause issues with interpretations of the resource on the right side of the relation.

It could be considered a link, while it shouldn't - it will be an IRI template that needs to be resolved first (becoming a real link).

New approach feels safer from that point of view still providing required semantics.