Re: [rdf4j-dev] Google Summer of Code ideas

[Rick Moynihan <rick.m@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24 January 2017 at 22:09, Jeen Broekstra <jeen.broekstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi folks,

Eclipse is participating in the Google Summer of Code  and have invited all projects to think about participating as well. There’s two ways in which we can become involved: :

1. Extending the QueryRenderer for SPARQL 1.1 (#71);

I'd certainly like to see the above implemented; though it's worth mentioning you can work around this by using JENA's ARQ.

Another issue I've been meaning to raise is that the current parsers for all the RDF formats are all eager and even though they emit parse events they can't be aborted early from the outside.  This means that if you want to read an RDF file it's an all or nothing affair, or you have to resort to hacks like parsing it on another thread and passing events over a queue.  I'm not sure if this is a big enough change to warrant a GSOC project, but it's something I've been meaning to discuss. 

Happy to open a ticket on the issue if you think it's worth while, rather than derailing this thread.

R.