Hi,

I noticed a behavior change in the Jena 3.1.1 sparql command line tool. I wonder if this is intentional?

With 3.1.0 I could combine --data and --namedGraph like this:
sparql --data example.nt --namedGraph namedgraph.nt --query query.rq

Here are the contents of the files:

example.nt:
<http://example.org/subj> <http://example.org/prop> <http://example.org/obj>

namedgraph.nt:
<http://example.org/graph> <http://example.org/prop> <http://example.org/obj> .

query.rq:
SELECT * { ?s ?p ?o }


The result using Jena 3.1.0:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| s | p | o |
====================================================================================
| <http://example.org/subj> | <http://example.org/prop> | <http://example.org/obj> |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Result with Jena 3.1.1:
-------------
| s | p | o |
=============
-------------


I get the intended result (the triple from example.nt) with this command which uses --graph instead of --data:

sparql --graph example.nt --namedGraph namedgraph.nt --query query.rq


So it seems that when combined with a --namedGraph option, the data specified using --data no longer ends up in the default graph with Jena 3.1.1. If I remove the --namedGraph option, then the problem disappears and the file specified by --data does end up in the default graph.

I can easily work around this by not using this combination of options (after all, --graph is the more explicit way of loading data into the default graph), I was just surprised when a script broke because of this change.

-Osma

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Osma Suominen
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National Library of Finland
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