json_ld_processor is an implementation of a document-based (i.e., non-streaming) JSON-LD processor in Python.
JSON-LD is a JSON representation format for Linked Data. A public working draft of a potential specification of JSON-LD is available at http://json-ld.org/spec/latest/.
json_ld_processor is an experimental implementation, written to support work in understanding and helping to refine the JSON-LD draft specification. Therefore, one should expect rough but not complete compliance with the latest draft.
In fact, one should expect numerous bugs, inefficiencies, and gross misunderstandings of key concepts in the specification.
That being said, the processor, run from the command line, executes a test suite that shows correct behavior over a number of test cases taken from the draft specification and other communications about JSON-LD.
Thanks to Manu Sporny and Mark Birbeck for drafting the JSON-LD specification.
Python 2.6 or above.
$ git clone git@github.com:bradleypallen/json_ld_processor.git
class Processor(__builtin__.object)
| Defines a class for a JSON-LD processor, as specified in http://json-ld.org/spec/latest/.
|
| Methods defined here:
|
| __init__(self, context=None)
| Creates a JSON-LD Processor.
|
| Keyword arguments:
| context -- a Python dictionary providing the specification of a default context for the processor.
|
| If context is None, the default context is equivalent to the following JSON-LD context:
|
| {
| "#": {
| "__vocab__": "http://example.org/default-vocab#",
| "rdf": "http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#",
| "xsd": "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#",
| "dc": "http://purl.org/dc/terms/",
| "skos": "http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#",
| "foaf": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/",
| "sioc": "http://rdfs.org/sioc/ns#",
| "cc": "http://creativecommons.org/ns#",
| "geo": "http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#",
| "vcard": "http://www.w3.org/2006/vcard/ns#",
| "cal": "http://www.w3.org/2002/12/cal/ical#",
| "doap": "http://usefulinc.com/ns/doap#",
| "Person": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person",
| "name": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name",
| "homepage": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/homepage"
| }
| }
|
| Returns: an instance of json_ld_processor.Processor.
|
| triples(self, doc)
| An iterator that yields triples by deserializing a JSON_LD document.
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| Arguments:
| doc -- a str instance containing a JSON_LD document.
|
| Returns: an iterator.
|
| Each triple is a Python dictionary with keys "subj", "prop" and "obj", each
| with values of the triple's subject, property and object, respectively.
|
| For example, the JSON-LD document
|
| {
| "#": {"foaf": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"},
| "@": "<http://example.org/people#john>",
| "a": "foaf:Person",
| "foaf:name" : "John Lennon"
| }
|
| yields the following triples
|
| {
| 'objtype': 'resource',
| 'subj': u'http://example.org/people#john',
| 'obj': u'http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person',
| 'prop': 'http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type'
| },
| {
| 'objtype': 'literal',
| 'datatype': 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string',
| 'obj': u'John Lennon',
| 'subj': u'http://example.org/people#john',
| 'prop': u'http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name'
| }
|
| which can be serialized as follows in N-Triples format
|
| <http://example.org/people#john> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person> .
| <http://example.org/people#john> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name> "John Lennon" .
|
json_ld_to_ntriples(doc)
Serializes a set of triples into N-Triples format, based on the
deserialization of a JSON-LD document.
Usage:
$ ./json_ld_to_ntriples.py ../test/json_ld_org_landing_page_example.json
<http://example.org/people#john> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Person> .
<http://example.org/people#john> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name> "John Lennon" .
class TestProcessor(unittest.TestCase)
| Defines a unittest test processor for automated unit testing of the JSON-LD processor.
| Tests are largely drawn from examples in the specification at http://json-ld.org/spec/latest/,
| but also include some based on individual and group conversations.
|
| Each test case simply takes a JSON-LD document, deserializes it using triples(),
| and asserts that the generated list of triples is the same as a target list of triples.
|
| Usage:
| $ ./json_ld_test_suite.py
| ......................
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------
| Ran 22 tests in 0.015s
|
| OK
All of the test cases in the test suite for json_ld_processor.py are provided as stand-alone files in the /test directory.
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