Repository config: Import schema files on repository creation?

[erikgb]

I am writing some tests for an application using RDF4J to access some GraphDB repositories. The tests do not strictly require GDB, and I would like to use a simple RDF4J LocalRepositoryManager to stub out GDB. The application under test creates some repositories, and I have hooks to replace the TTL file-templates, that are tailored for GDB config.

I wonder if RDF4J has something roughly equivalent to graphdb:imports, or if I have to do this programmatically in my test-setup?

A list of schema files that will be imported at startup. All statements found in these files will be loaded in the repository and will be treated as read-only.

[abrokenjester]

I don't think we have something comparable to that - so yeah, doing this during test setup is probably the easiest way forward.

[erikgb]

Thanks! Would it make sense to add a feature request for this? 😉

[abrokenjester]

I must admit I'm struggling a little to understand the utility of it: I mean what's the advantage of providing data files via a config property rather than just uploading them once via regular means?

However if the expected behaviour can be explained and it has value then I don't see why we couldn't add something like that. Whether the exact same approach as GraphDB (a config property on the repo) is the right approach depends a bit on what we expect this to be used for.