SPARQL Update is a W3C standard for an RDF update language with SPARQL syntax. It is described in “SPARQL 1.1 Update”.
A SPARQL Update request is composed of a number of update operations, so in a single request graphs can be created, loaded with RDF data and modified.
Some examples of ARQ’s SPARQL Update support are to be found in the download in jena-examples:arq/examples/update.
The main API classes are:
- UpdateRequest - A list of Update to be performed.
- UpdateFactory - Create UpdateRequest objects by parsing strings or parsing the contents of a file.
- UpdateAction - execute updates
To execute a SPARQL Update request as a script from a file:
Dataset dataset = ...
UpdateAction.readExecute("update.ru", dataset) ;
To execute a SPARQL Update request as a string:
Dataset dataset = ...
UpdateAction.parseExecute("DROP ALL", dataset) ;
The application writer can create and execute operations:
UpdateRequest request = UpdateFactory.create() ;
request.add("DROP ALL")
.add("CREATE GRAPH <http://example/g2>")
.add("LOAD <file:etc/update-data.ttl> INTO <http://example/g2>") ;
// And perform the operations.
UpdateAction.execute(request, dataset) ;
but be aware that each operation added needs to be a complete SPARQL Update operation, including prefixes if needed.