it.unibz.inf.ontop.dbschema

Interface QuotedIDFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

RawQuotedIDFactory, SQLStandardQuotedIDFactory

public interface QuotedIDFactory

Factory for creating attribute and relation identifier from strings. It defines the rules of transforming unquoted and quoted identifiers.

Author:

Roman Kontchakov

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
QuotedID	createAttributeID(String attributeId) Creates a new attribute ID from a string.
RelationID	createRelationID(String... components) Creates a new relation ID from the component strings.
RelationID	createRelationID(String tableId)
String	getIDQuotationString()

Method Detail

createAttributeID

QuotedID createAttributeID(@Nonnull
                           String attributeId)

Creates a new attribute ID from a string.

Parameters:

attributeId - possibly quoted attribute ID (SQL rendering)

Returns:

attribute ID

createRelationID

RelationID createRelationID(@Nonnull
                            String tableId)

createRelationID

RelationID createRelationID(String... components)

Creates a new relation ID from the component strings.

Parameters:

components - list of the possibly quoted components of relation ID, from the catalog to the table name

Returns:

relation ID

getIDQuotationString

String getIDQuotationString()

Returns:

quotation string used in the SQL rendering