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/*  Sesame - Storage and Querying architecture for RDF and RDF Schema
 *  Copyright (C) 2001-2006 Aduna
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package org.openrdf.model;

import org.openrdf.sesame.sail.StatementIterator;

/**
 * The supertype of all RDF resources (URIs and blank nodes).
 **/
public interface Resource extends Value {
	
	/**
	 * Adds a property to this Resource in the RDF graph. The result is that a
	 * statement of the form (this, property, value) is added.
	 * 
	 * @param property the predicate of the statement that should be added.
	 * @param value the value of the statements that should be added.
	 */
	public void addProperty(URI property, Value value)
		throws GraphException;
	
	/**
	 * Gets all statements from the RDF graph for which  this resource is the subject.
	 **/
	public StatementIterator getSubjectStatements()
		throws GraphException;
}