JSON-LD.ex

An implementation of the JSON-LD standard for Elixir and RDF.ex.

Features

• fully conforming JSON-LD API processor
• JSON-LD reader/writer for RDF.ex
• tests of the JSON-LD test suite (see here for a detailed status report)

TODO

• remote contexts
• JSON-LD Framing
• JSON-LD 1.1 support

Installation

The JSON-LD.ex Hex package can be installed as usual, by adding json_ld to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [{:json_ld, "~> 0.2"}]
end

Usage

Expand a document

"""
{
 "@context":
 {
    "name": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name",
    "homepage": {
      "@id": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/homepage",
      "@type": "@id"
    }
 },
 "name": "Manu Sporny",
 "homepage": "http://manu.sporny.org/"
}
"""
|> Jason.decode!
|> JSON.LD.expand

produces

[%{"http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/homepage" => [%{"@id" => "http://manu.sporny.org/"}],
   "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name" => [%{"@value" => "Manu Sporny"}]}]

Compact a document

context = Jason.decode! """
  {
    "@context": {
      "name": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name",
      "homepage": {
        "@id": "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/homepage",
        "@type": "@id"
      }
    }
  }
  """

"""
[
  {
    "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name": [ "Manu Sporny" ],
    "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/homepage": [
      {
       "@id": "http://manu.sporny.org/"
      }
    ]
  }
]
"""
|> Jason.decode!
|> JSON.LD.compact(context)

produces

%{"@context" => %{
    "homepage" => %{
        "@id" => "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/homepage", 
        "@type" => "@id"},
    "name" => "http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name"
    },
  "homepage" => "http://manu.sporny.org/", 
  "name" => "Manu Sporny"}

RDF Reader and Writer

JSON-LD.ex can be used to serialize or deserialize RDF graphs by using it as a RDF.ex reader and writer.

dataset = JSON.LD.read_file!("file.jsonld")
JSON.LD.write_file!(dataset, "file.jsonld")

Pretty printing

Pretty printing is possible on all writer functions with all of the formatter options of Jason, the underlying JSON encoder, to which the given options are passed through.

JSON.LD.write_file!(dataset, "file.jsonld", pretty: true)
JSON.LD.write_string(dataset, "file.jsonld", pretty: [indent: "\t"])

Getting help

• Documentation
• Google Group

Contributing

see CONTRIBUTING for details.

License and Copyright

(c) 2017 Marcel Otto. MIT Licensed, see LICENSE for details.