Thanks for the explanation Rob.

But what does this leave me with, if I want to
- use the exact same query form (no SERVICE workaround) to work both
locally and remotely
- bind values to variables in that query
at the same time?

Martynas

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 7:43 PM, Rob Vesse <[email protected]> wrote:
> Using ParameterizedSparqlString doesn't work for a couple of reasons:
>
>
> 1 - As Holger points out it is using dumb string substitution (the Javadoc
> says as much) so doesn't necessarily substitute what you actually want
> 2 - It only allows a single value per variable whereas initial bindings
> allows many possible values per variable
>
> Holger's SERVICE workaround functions because internally ARQ substitutes
> each possible binding once into the SERVICE clause so executes potentially
> many remote calls to appropriately fulfill the SERVICE portion of the
> query.
>
> One possibility would be to inject a VALUES clause into the query though
> there may be some issues with scoping and collision with existing VALUES
> clauses
>
> Feel free to open a JIRA
>
> Rob
>
> On 4/3/13 9:21 AM, "Martynas Jusevičius" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Hey all,
>>
>>QueryEngineHTTP does not implement setInitialBindings() due to Jena's
>>implementation specifics, as I found out a while ago:
>>http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/jena-users/201201.mbox/%3C4F11B03
>>[email protected]%3E
>>
>>However, this lack of uniformity prevents generic code that depends on
>>QueryExecution. Usually implementations need the same behavior no
>>matter where the query is executed (locally or remotely). There was
>>recently such case within SPIN API:
>>https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/topbraid-users/pMeMo-1
>>U4_k
>>
>>So I was wondering, wouldn't it be possible to implement
>>QueryEngineHTTP.setInitialBinding() using ParameterizedSparqlString?
>>Now the code includes a notice related to this, but no implementation.
>>
>>If that looks reasonable, I can make a new issue on JIRA.
>>
>>Martynas
>>graphity.org
>

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