Java tutorial
package com.knowledgebooks.rdf; import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*; import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod; import org.xml.sax.SAXException; import org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler; import org.xml.sax.Attributes; import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser; import javax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.net.URLEncoder; import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.HashMap; import java.util.List; import java.util.Map; /** * Copyright Mark Watson 2008-2010. All Rights Reserved. * License: LGPL version 3 (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt) */ public class SparqlClient extends DefaultHandler { public SparqlClient(String endpoint_URL, String sparql) throws Exception { //System.out.println("SparqlClient("+endpoint_URL+", "+sparql+")"); HttpClient client = new HttpClient(); client.getHttpConnectionManager().getParams().setConnectionTimeout(10000); String req = URLEncoder.encode(sparql, "utf-8"); HttpMethod method = new GetMethod(endpoint_URL + "?query=" + req); method.setFollowRedirects(false); try { client.executeMethod(method); //System.out.println(method.getResponseBodyAsString()); //if (true) return; InputStream ins = method.getResponseBodyAsStream(); SAXParserFactory factory = SAXParserFactory.newInstance(); SAXParser sax = factory.newSAXParser(); sax.parse(ins, this); } catch (HttpException he) { System.err.println("Http error connecting to '" + endpoint_URL + "'"); } catch (IOException ioe) { System.err.println("Unable to connect to '" + endpoint_URL + "'"); } method.releaseConnection(); } private List<Map<String, String>> variableBindings = new ArrayList<Map<String, String>>(); private Map<String, String> tempBinding = null; private String tempVariableName = null; private String lastElementName = null; public void startElement(String uri, String localName, String qName, Attributes attributes) throws SAXException { //System.out.println("startElement " + qName); if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("result")) { tempBinding = new HashMap<String, String>(); } if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("binding")) { tempVariableName = attributes.getValue("name"); } lastElementName = qName; } public void endElement(String uri, String localName, String qName) throws SAXException { if (qName.equalsIgnoreCase("result")) { if (!variableBindings.contains(tempBinding)) variableBindings.add(tempBinding); } } public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length) throws SAXException { String s = new String(ch, start, length).trim(); if (s.length() > 0) { if ("literal".equals(lastElementName)) tempBinding.put(tempVariableName, s); if ("uri".equals(lastElementName)) tempBinding.put(tempVariableName, "<" + s + ">"); } } public List<Map<String, String>> variableBindings() { return variableBindings; } }