[Nepomuk] [Soprano-devel] Refactoring for Soprano 3
Sebastian Trüg
trueg at kde.org
Tue Oct 13 17:20:40 CEST 2009
I forgot the attachment. :/
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 16:57:58 Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Soprano 2 IMHO has a nice design. Backend, Model, and FilterModel suited my
> needs very well and were nice to use. But now it slowly reaches its limits.
>
> With Virtuoso the introduction of transactions become very important. I
> tried to stack them on top of Model as you can see in the experimental
> branch[1] but the resulting design is flawed and cannot be any different
> since we need to stay binary compatible for KDE.
>
> Thus, it is time for a redesign and also time for you to state your needs
> and ideas.
>
> Attached you find a preliminary design in the form of a crude UML diagram.
> It is based on the sesame2 idea of Respository vs. RespositoryConnection.
>
> A few words of explanation:
> - Model is split into two classes Repository and RepositoryConnection.
> Each RespositoryConnection represents its own transaction object, i.e.
> can perform multiple transactions.
> - A Repository can create an arbitrary number of RespositoryConnection
> objects.
> - Backend is now RepositoryFactoy (better name welcome). It is used to
> create StorageRepositories which replace StorageModel and have settings
> like storage dir and the like.
> - FilterRepository and FilterRepositoryConnection replace the current
> FilterModel.
> A FilterRepository would need to create its own connections which carry
> as a member a parent connection created by the parent Repository.
>
> This is the basis I would like to start the discussion from.
> Another issue is inference which I would like to integrate deeper into
> Soprano. The straight forward design would be to add a flags parameter to
> method like query() and listStatements() which can for example be
> EnableInference.
>
> Please discuss.
>
> Cheers,
> Sebastian
>
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