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A library for core classes (Graph, Vertex, Edge, etc.)

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package io.konig.core;

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import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.List;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonGenerator;

import io.konig.core.io.PrettyPrintable;

public interface Context extends Serializable {
	
	/**
	 * Get the version number for this context.
	 * Later versions have a larger version numbers that earlier versions.  But version numbers are not necessarily sequential. 
	 * @return The version number for this Context, or 0 if this Context is not under version control.
	 */
	public long getVersionNumber();
	
	public void setVersionNumber(long versionNumber);
	
	/**
	 * Returns a vendor specific media type associated with this JSON-LD context, or null
	 * if no such media type is known.
	 */
	public String getVendorType();
	
	public void setVendorType(String mediaType);
	
	public String getLanguage();
	
	public String getContextIRI();
	
	public void setContextIRI(String iri);
	
	public Term addTerm(String key, String id);
	
	public List asList();
	
	public String alias(String keyword);
	
	public Context inverse();
	
	public void add(Term term);
	
	public Term getTerm(String key);
	
	public String expandIRI(String value);
	
	public void compile();
	
	public void sort();	
	
	public void toJson(JsonGenerator json) throws IOException;

}