quickRdfIo

Collection of RDF parsers and serializers implementing the https://github.com/sweetrdf/rdfInterface interface.

Originally developed for the quickRdf library.

Supported formats

format	read/write	class	implementation	streaming[1]
rdf-xml	rw	RdfXmlParser, RdfXmlSerializer	own	yes
n-triples	rw	NQuadsParser, NQuadsSerializer	own	yes
n-triples*	rw	NQuadsParser, NQuadsSerializer	own	yes
n-quads	rw	NQuadsParser, NQuadsSerializer	own	yes
n-quads*	rw	NQuadsParser, NQuadsSerializer	own	yes
turtle	rw	TriGParser, TrigSerializer	pietercolpaert/hardf	yes
trig	rw	TriGParser, TrigSerializer	pietercolpaert/hardf	yes
JsonLD	rw	JsonLdParser, JsonLdSerializer	ml/json-ld	no
JsonLD[2]	w	JsonLdStreamSerializer	own[3]	yes

[1] A streaming parser/serializer doesn't materialize the whole dataset in memory which assures constant (and low) memory footprint. (this feature applies only to the parser/serializer - see the section on memory usage below)
[2] Use the jsonld-stream value for the $format parameter of the \quickRdfIo\Util::serialize() to use this serializer.
[3] Outputs data only in the extremely flattened Json-LD but works in a streaming mode.

Installation

• Obtain the Composer
• Run composer require sweetrdf/quick-rdf-io

Automatically generated documentation

https://sweetrdf.github.io/quickRdfIo/namespaces/quickrdfio.html

It's very incomplete but better than nothing.
RdfInterface and ml/json-ld documentation is included.

Usage

Remark - there are calls to two other libraries in examples sweetrdf/quick-rdf and sweetrdf/term-templates. You may install them with composer require sweetrdf/quick-rdf and composer require sweetrdf/term-templates.

Basic parsing

Just use \quickRdfIo\Util::parse($input, $dataFactory, $format, $baseUri), where:

• $input can be (almost) "anything containing RDF" (an RDF string, a path to a file, an URL, an opened resource (result of fopen()), a PSR-7 response or a PSR-7 StreamInterface object).
• $dataFactory is an object implementing the \rdfInterface\DataFactory interface, e.g. new \quickRdf\DataFactory().
• $format is an optional explicit RDF format indication for handling rare situtations when the format can't be autodetected. See the src/quickRdfIo/Util.php::getParser() source code to see a list of all accepted $format values.
• $baseUri is an optional baseURI value (for some kind of $input values it can be autodected).

include 'vendor/autoload.php';

// create a DataFactory - it's needed by all parsers
// (DataFactory implementation comes from other package, here sweetrdf/quick-rdf)
$dataFactory = new \quickRdf\DataFactory();

// parse a file
$iterator = \quickRdfIo\Util::parse('tests/files/quadsPositive.nq', $dataFactory);
foreach ($iterator as $i) echo "$i\n";
// parse a remote file (with format autodetection as github wrongly reports text/html)
$url = 'https://github.com/sweetrdf/quickRdfIo/raw/master/tests/files/spec2.10.rdf';
$iterator = \quickRdfIo\Util::parse($url, $dataFactory);
foreach ($iterator as $i) echo "$i\n";
// parse a PSR-7 response (format recognized from the response content-type header)
$url = 'https://www.w3.org/2000/10/rdf-tests/RDF-Model-Syntax_1.0/ms_7.2_1.rdf';
$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();
$request = new \GuzzleHttp\Psr7\Request('GET', $url);
$response = $client->send($request);
$iterator = \quickRdfIo\Util::parse($response, $dataFactory);
foreach ($iterator as $i) echo "$i\n";
// parse a string containing RDF with format autodetection
$rdf = file_get_contents('https://www.w3.org/2000/10/rdf-tests/RDF-Model-Syntax_1.0/ms_7.2_1.rdf');
$iterator = \quickRdfIo\Util::parse($rdf, $dataFactory);
foreach ($iterator as $i) echo "$i\n";
// parse an PHP stream
$stream = fopen('tests/files/quadsPositive.nq', 'r');
$iterator = \quickRdfIo\Util::parse($stream, $dataFactory);
fclose($stream);

// in most cases you will populate a Dataset with parsed triples/quads
// (note that a Dataset implementation comes from other package, e.g. sweetrdf/quick-rdf)
$dataset = new \quickRdf\Dataset();
$url = 'https://github.com/sweetrdf/quickRdfIo/raw/master/tests/files/spec2.10.rdf';
$dataset->add(\quickRdfIo\Util::parse($url, $dataFactory));
echo $dataset;

Basic serialization

Just use \quickRdfIo\Util::serialize($data, $format, $output, $nmsp), where:

• $data is an object implementing the \rdfInterface\QuadIterator interface, e.g. a Dataset or an iterator returned by the parser.
• $format specifies an RDF serialization format, e.g. turtle or ntriples. See the src/quickRdfIo/Util.php::getSeriazlier() source code to see a list of all accepted $format values.
• $output is an optional parameter describing where the output should be written. If it's missing or null, output is returned as a string. If it's a string, it's treated as a path to open with fopen($output, 'wb'). If it's a stream resource or PSR-8 StreamInterface instance, the output is just written into it.
• $nmsp is an optional parameter used to pass desired RDF namespace aliases to the serializer. Note some formats like n-triples and n-quads don't support namespace aliases while in others (e.g. turtle) it's very common to use them.

include 'vendor/autoload.php';

$iterator = ...some \rdfInterface\QuadIterator, e.g. one from parsing examples...

// serialize to file in text/turtle format
\quickRdfIo\Util::serialize($iterator, 'turtle', 'myFile.ttl');
// serialize to string
echo \quickRdfIo\Util::serialize($iterator, 'turtle');

// use given namespace aliases when serializing to turtle
$nmsp = new \quickRdf\RdfNamespace();
$nmsp->add('http://purl.org/dc/terms/', 'dc');
$nmsp->add('http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#', 'rdf');
echo \quickRdfIo\Util::serialize($iterator, 'turtle', null, $nmsp);

Basic conversion

include 'vendor/autoload.php';
// create a DataFactory - it's needed by all parsers
// (note that DataFactory implementation comes from other package, e.g. sweetrdf/quick-rdf)
$dataFactory = new \quickRdf\DataFactory();

// or any other example from the "Basic parsing" section above
$iterator = \quickRdfIo\Util::parse('tests/files/puzzle4d_100k.nt', $dataFactory);
// or any other example from the "Basic serialization" section above
\quickRdfIo\Util::serialize($iterator, 'rdf', 'output.rdf');

Basic filtering without a Dataset

It's worth noting that basic triples/quads filtering can be done in a memory efficient way without usage of a Dataset implementation.

Let's say we want to copy all triples with the https://vocabs.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/schema#hasIdentifier predicate from the test/files/puzzle4d_100k.nt n-triples file into a ids.ttl turtle file.

A typical approach would be to load data into a Dataset, filter them there and finally serialize the Dataset:

include 'vendor/autoload.php';
$dataFactory = new \quickRdf\DataFactory();
$t = microtime(true);

// parse input into a Dataset
$iterator = \quickRdfIo\Util::parse('tests/files/puzzle4d_100k.nt', $dataFactory);
$dataset = new \quickRdf\Dataset();
$dataset->add($iterator);

// filter out non-matching triples
$template = new \termTemplates\QuadTemplate(null, $dataFactory->namedNode('https://vocabs.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/schema#hasIdentifier'), null);
$dataset->deleteExcept($template);

// serialize
\quickRdfIo\Util::serialize($dataset, 'turtle', 'ids.ttl');

print_r([
    'time [s]' => microtime(true) - $t,
    'memory [MB]' => (int) (memory_get_peak_usage(true) / 1024 / 1024),
]);
// 4.4s, 125 MB of RAM

but it can be also done by using a "filtering generator" instead of the Dataset. With this approach we avoid materializing the whole dataset in memory which should both reduce memory footprint and speed things up a little:

include 'vendor/autoload.php';
$dataFactory = new \quickRdf\DataFactory();
$t = microtime(true);

// prepare input generator
$iterator = \quickRdfIo\Util::parse('tests/files/puzzle4d_100k.nt', $dataFactory);

// create a generator performing the filtering
$template = new \termTemplates\QuadTemplate(null, $dataFactory->namedNode('https://vocabs.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/schema#hasIdentifier'), null);
$filter = function($iter, $tmpl) {
    foreach ($iter as $quad) {
        if ($tmpl->equals($quad)) {
            yield $quad;
        }
    }
};
// wrap it into something implementing \rdfInterface\QuadIterator for types compatibility
$wrapper = new \rdfHelpers\GenericQuadIterator($filter($iterator, $template));

// serialize our filtering generator
\quickRdfIo\Util::serialize($wrapper, 'turtle', 'ids.ttl');

print_r([
    'time [s]' => microtime(true) - $t,
    'memory [MB]' => (int) (memory_get_peak_usage(true) / 1024 / 1024),
]);
// 2.7s, 51 MB of RAM

Results are better but the memory footprint is still surprisingly high. This is because of the DataFactory implementation we've used and performance optimizations it's applying (which admitedly in our scenario only slow things down). We can can optimize further by using as dumb as possible DataFactory implementation (for that we need another package - sweetrdf/simple-rdf):

include 'vendor/autoload.php';
$dataFactory = new \simpleRdf\DataFactory();
$t = microtime(true);

// prepare input generator
$iterator = \quickRdfIo\Util::parse('tests/files/puzzle4d_100k.nt', $dataFactory);

// create a generator performing the filtering
$template = new \termTemplates\QuadTemplate(null, $dataFactory->namedNode('https://vocabs.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/schema#hasIdentifier'), null);
$filter = function($iter, $tmpl) {
    foreach ($iter as $quad) {
        if ($tmpl->equals($quad)) {
            yield $quad;
        }
    }
};
// wrap it into something implementing \rdfInterface\QuadIterator for types compatibility
$wrapper = new \rdfHelpers\GenericQuadIterator($filter($iterator, $template));

// serialize our filtering generator
\quickRdfIo\Util::serialize($wrapper, 'turtle', 'ids.ttl');

print_r([
    'time [s]' => microtime(true) - $t,
    'memory [MB]' => (int) (memory_get_peak_usage(true) / 1024 / 1024),
]);
// 1.9s, 2 MB of RAM

As we can see the optimized implementation is 2.3 times faster and has 60 times lower memory footprint that a Dataset-based one.

Notes:

• Check the sweetrdf/term-templates library for more classes allowing to easily match triples/quads fulfilling given conditions.
• This approach is not limited to filtering. Simple triples/quads modifications can be applied similar way (just adjust the "filtering generator" foreach loop body).

Manual parser/serializer instantiation

It's of course possible to instantiate particular parser/serializer explicitly.

This is the only option to fine-tune parser/serializer configuration, e.g.:

• Create a strict n-triples parser

  $parser = new \quickRdfIo\NQuadsParser($dataFactory, true, \quickRdfIo\NQuadsParser::MODE_TRIPLES);

• Create a JsonLD serializer applying compacting with a context read from a given file and producing pretty-printed JSON:

  $serializer = new \quickRdfIo\JsonLdSerializer(
      'http://baseUri', 
      \quickRdfIo\JsonLdSerializer::TRANSFORM_COMPACT, 
      JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES | JSON_PRETTY_PRINT,
      'context.jsonld'
  );

Be aware that parsing/serialization with the manually created parser/serializer instance requires a little more code.

Compare

include 'vendor/autoload.php';
$data = ...data read from somewhere...

// using \quickRdfIo\Util::serialize()
\quickRdfIo\Util::serialize($data, 'jsonld', 'output.jsonld');

// using manually instantiated serializer
$serializer = new \quickRdfIo\JsonLdSerializer();
$output = fopen('output.jsonld', 'w');
$serializer->serialize($data, $output);
fclose($output);