Package org.openprovenance.prov.model

Interface Entity

All Superinterfaces:

Element, HasLabel, HasLocation, HasOther, HasType, HasValue, Identifiable, Statement, StatementOrBundle

All Known Implementing Classes:

Entity

public interface Entity
extends Identifiable, HasLabel, HasType, HasLocation, Statement, HasValue, HasOther, Element

Interface for the PROV Entity complex type.

PROV-DM Definition for Entity: An entity is a physical, digital, conceptual, or other kind of thing with some fixed aspects; entities may be real or imaginary.

The constructor method ProvFactory.newEntity(QualifiedName) can be used to create an instance of Entity. The following code snippet creates a new entity statement, with a location attribute "London". The entity is given an identifier myId.

 QualifiedName myId= ... ;  // some qualified name
 Entity myEntity=provFactory.newEntity(myId)
 myEntity.getLocation().add(provFactory.newLocation("London"))
 

Relevant Factory Methods:

• ProvFactory.newEntity(QualifiedName)
• ProvFactory.newEntity(QualifiedName, java.util.Collection)
• ObjectFactory.createEntity()

Schema Definition:

The following schema fragment specifies the expected content contained within this type.

 <complexType name="Entity">
   <complexContent>
     <restriction base="{http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema}anyType">
       <sequence>
         <element ref="{http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#}label" maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0"/>
         <element ref="{http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#}location" maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0"/>
         <element ref="{http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#}type" maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0"/>
         <element ref="{http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#}value" minOccurs="0"/>
         <any processContents='skip' namespace='##other' maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="0"/>
       </sequence>
       <attribute ref="{http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#}id"/>
     </restriction>
   </complexContent>
 </complexType>
 

See Also:

PROV-DM Entity, PROV-O Entity, PROV-N Entity, PROV-XML Entity, PROV-JSON Entity

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface org.openprovenance.prov.model.StatementOrBundle

StatementOrBundle.Kind

Method Summary

Methods inherited from interface org.openprovenance.prov.model.HasLabel

getLabel

Methods inherited from interface org.openprovenance.prov.model.HasLocation

getLocation

Methods inherited from interface org.openprovenance.prov.model.HasOther

getOther

Methods inherited from interface org.openprovenance.prov.model.HasType

getType

Methods inherited from interface org.openprovenance.prov.model.HasValue

getValue, setValue

Methods inherited from interface org.openprovenance.prov.model.Identifiable

getId, setId

Methods inherited from interface org.openprovenance.prov.model.StatementOrBundle

getKind