Github user ejwhite922 commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-rya/pull/291#discussion_r182854497
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common/rya.api/src/main/java/org/apache/rya/api/domain/VarNameUtils.java ---
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+package org.apache.rya.api.domain;
+
+import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
+import org.eclipse.rdf4j.model.Value;
+import org.eclipse.rdf4j.model.ValueFactory;
+import org.eclipse.rdf4j.model.impl.SimpleValueFactory;
+import org.eclipse.rdf4j.query.algebra.Var;
+import org.eclipse.rdf4j.query.algebra.helpers.TupleExprs;
+
+/**
+ * Utility methods and constants for RDF {@link Var} names.
+ */
+public final class VarNameUtils {
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Yea, this was the biggest obstacle to get our stuff working with RDF4J.
They changed the tags used to mark constant and anonymous var names ("-const-"
to "_const_" and "-anon-" to "_anon_"). And our code had tons of checks for
the old tags using hard-coded strings everywhere. Now everything at least
references this class so it won't be hard to see what calls its methods. I
tried to mimic the old functionality with this but maybe we can eventually
deprecate if there's another way (I didn't see one in RDF4J that handled
Strings).
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