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package org.semanticweb.owlapi.model;
import org.semanticweb.owlapi.vocab.OWLRDFVocabulary;
/**
* Represents Entities in the OWL 2 Specification.
*
* @author Matthew Horridge, The University Of Manchester, Bio-Health Informatics Group
* @since 2.0.0
*/
public interface OWLEntity extends OWLObject, OWLNamedObject, OWLPrimitive, AsOWLClass,
AsOWLDataProperty,
AsOWLDatatype, AsOWLAnnotationProperty, AsOWLNamedIndividual, AsOWLObjectProperty {
/**
* Gets the entity type for this entity.
*
* @return The entity type
*/
EntityType getEntityType();
/**
* Tests to see if this entity is of the specified type.
*
* @param entityType The entity type
* @return {@code true} if this entity is of the specified type, otherwise {@code false}.
*/
default boolean isType(EntityType entityType) {
return getEntityType().equals(entityType);
}
/**
* Determines if this entity is a built in entity. The entity is a built in
* entity if it is:
*
* - a class and the URI corresponds to owl:Thing or owl:Nothing
* - an object property and the URI corresponds to owl:topObjectProperty
* or owl:bottomObjectProperty
* - a data property and the URI corresponds to owl:topDataProperty or
* owl:bottomDataProperty
* - a datatype and the IRI is rdfs:Literal or is in the OWL 2 datatype
* map or is rdf:PlainLiteral
* - an annotation property and the URI is in the set of built in
* annotation property URIs, i.e. one of:
*
* - rdfs:label
* - rdfs:comment
* - rdfs:seeAlso
* - rdfs:isDefinedBy
* - owl:deprecated
* - owl:priorVersion
* - owl:backwardCompatibleWith
* - owl:incompatibleWith
*
*
*
*
* @return {@code true} if this entity is a built in entity, or {@code false} if this entity is
* not a builtin entity.
*/
default boolean isBuiltIn() {
return OWLRDFVocabulary.BUILT_IN_AP_IRIS.contains(getIRI());
}
/**
* Returns a string representation that can be used as the ID of this
* entity. This is the toString representation of the IRI
*
* @return A string representing the toString of the IRI of this entity.
*/
String toStringID();
/**
* @param visitor visitor
*/
void accept(OWLEntityVisitor visitor);
/**
* @param visitor visitor
* @param visitor return type
* @return visitor return value
*/
O accept(OWLEntityVisitorEx visitor);
}