Irene, yes to a certain extent that would work, assuming that the SM scripts asserts the new triples into the current model (using sml:PerformUpdate with INSERT INTO <http://tb-session>). This would then add exactly that person to the graph, and also notify the client about the new triples, i.e. the new Person would show up on the screen. However, this is not really a true RDF back-end and many other queries (e.g. using the class tree or search form) don't work because they have no real RDF data to query.
Holger On Mar 19, 2009, at 10:34 AM, Irene Polikoff wrote: > Hi Tim, > > I think that while you can not do exactly as described, you can do > something very similar: > > 1. User starts TB/Ensemble and opens the Person ontology. > 2. User selects Person class in a Tree component > 3. User presses on the SPARQLMotion button and selects "Find > employee' (or whatever you call it) in the list of available actions, > 4. A popup opens up prompting to type a surname. User types > the name and presses OK. > > You would need to create the appropriate SM script. For details on > how to do this, take a look at the Developing applications with TBE > guide that is accesible through TBC help by going to TopBraid > Composer > TopBraid Live Integration (ME) > Overview of TopBraid > Live Integration. > > Since you have already written a SM script that can submit a request > to the webservice and process the resulting XML into instances in > your Person ontology, this should be an easy conversion. Holger, am > I missing something? > > We are planning to SPARQLMotion enable all the other components as > well. > > Irene Polikoff > > From: topbraid-composer-users@googlegroups.com > [mailto:topbraid-composer-users@googlegroups.com > ] On Behalf Of Holger Knublauch > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 11:05 AM > To: topbraid-composer-users@googlegroups.com > Subject: [tbc-users] Re: Creating a SPARQL Endpoint for a Webservice > > Hi Tim, > > it sounds like you are asking for something similar to D2RQ but for > an XML web service. D2RQ represents a virtual RDF graph that is > populated at query time. What you would need is a virtual RDF graph > that reacts on incoming SPO queries by issuing web service calls. > > Out of the box I don't see how our current platform supports such > scenarios. There are, as you have figured out, SPARQLMotion > mechanisms to call web services and convert their result into RDF, > but these are just individual calls and what's missing is some way > of triggering such scripts for all 8 combinations of SPO arguments. > I need to think more about how this could work - definitely an > interesting topic! > >> >> 1. User starts TB/Ensemble and opens the Person ontology. >> 2. User selects Person class >> 3. User types a name into the Surname property in the search >> box and presses Search. > > This would require a virtual RDF graph (or SPARQL end point) as > described above. There is no way to trigger a specific SM script in > response to a search and we have no plan to support that. > >> >> A second scenario is: >> 1. User enters a name as a parameter to the SM script which >> then returns the matching people as RDF. >> 2. User drags an instance of Person onto the query builder >> (FYI… dragging as described does not work in 3.0 Beta) > > Yes, drag and drop is currently being worked on. > > I have put a feature request for such SM scripts to our bug tracker. > The only work-around right now is to create a static copy of your > web service data (as a batch operation) and then to run your queries > against that local copy. I am not sure whether this is feasible for > you, and how frequently you would need to update that copy. > > Holger > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TopBraid Composer Users" group. To post to this group, send email to topbraid-composer-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to topbraid-composer-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-composer-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
