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package org.apache.jena.rdfconnection;

import org.apache.jena.query.Dataset;
import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Model;
import org.apache.jena.sparql.core.Transactional;

/**
 * SPARQL Graph Store Protocol (read operations) and whole dataset access.
 * {@link RDFDatasetConnection} adds the write operations.
 *
 * @see RDFDatasetConnection
 * @see RDFConnection
 * @see RDFConnectionFactory
 */  
public interface RDFDatasetAccessConnection extends Transactional, AutoCloseable
{
    /** Fetch a named graph.
     * This is SPARQL Graph Store Protocol HTTP GET or equivalent. 
     * 
     * @param graphName URI string for the graph name (null or "default" for the default graph)
     * @return Model
     */
    public Model fetch(String graphName);
    
    /** Fetch the default graph.
     * This is SPARQL Graph Store Protocol HTTP GET or equivalent. 
     * @return Model
     */
    public Model fetch();
    
    /** Fetch the contents of the dataset */ 
    public Dataset fetchDataset();
    
    /** Test whether this connection is closed or not */
    public boolean isClosed();
    
    /** Close this connection.  Use with try-resource. */ 
    @Override public void close();
}