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<h1>Rasqal RDF Query Library - Release Notes</h1>
<h2 id="rel0_9_16"><a name="rel0_9_16">Rasqal 0.9.16 Changes</a></h2>
<blockquote>
<p><b>WARNING: ABI AND API CHANGED IN THIS RELEASE.</b></p>
<p>This means: functions were removed, modified and added.</p>
<p>Consequently the shared library major soname version has changed from 0 to 1.</p>
<p>The header files moved to be installed in
<em>PREFIX</em>/include/rasqal such as
<code>/usr/include/rasqal</code> for usual installs.</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>Major Changes (break ABI and API)</h3>
<p>Removed <code>rasqal_init()</code> and <code>rasqal_finish()</code>
functions.</p>
<p>Added a new <code>rasqal_world</code> object to manage
library allocations and classes with new library
constructor/initializing function
<code>rasqal_world *rasqal_new_world(void)</code>
and destructor/cleanup function:
<code>void rasqal_free_world(rasqal_world*)</code>
</p>
<p>The following functions now take a <code>librdf_world*
world</code> argument as the first argument:
<code>rasqal_language_name_check()</code>,
<code>rasqal_languages_enumerate()</code>,
<code>rasqal_new_query()</code>,
<code>rasqal_query_results_formats_check ()</code>,
<code>rasqal_new_query_results_formatter()</code>,
<code>rasqal_new_query_results_formatter_by_mime_type()</code>,
<code>rasqal_new_integer_literal()</code>,
<code>rasqal_new_typed_literal()</code>,
<code>rasqal_new_double_literal()</code>,
<code>rasqal_new_float_literal()</code>,
<code>rasqal_new_uri_literal()</code>,
<code>rasqal_new_pattern_literal()</code>,
<code>rasqal_new_string_literal()</code>,
<code>rasqal_new_simple_literal()</code>,
<code>rasqal_new_boolean_literal()</code>,
<code>rasqal_new_variable_literal()</code>,
<code>rasqal_new_decimal_literal()</code>,
<code>rasqal_new_decimal_literal_from_decimal()</code>
</p>
<p>Removed deprecated
<code>rasqal_new_floating_literal()</code>,
<code>rasqal_graph_pattern_get_flags()</code>,
<code>rasqal_expression_foreach()</code> functions,
<code>RASQAL_LITERAL_FLOATING</code> macro and
<code>rasqal_expression_foreach_fn</code> typedef.
</p>
<p>
Modified <code>rasqal_triples_match</code> struct to add a
rasqal_world* world field.
</p>
<p>There is no more static data such as error pointers, arrays of
query languages, URI objects; it is all attached to the rasqal_world
object.</p>
<h3>Misc changes</h3>
<p>Fixed memory leaks in lang() expression evaluation. (Lauri Aalto)</p>
<p>Made several low-memory resiliance fixes in query construction and
execution. (Lauri Aalto)</p>
<p>Library requires raptor 1.4.17 or newer to get the newly public
raptor SAX2 API for reading SPARQL XML Results format.</p>
<p>Updated mpfr configure check to look for modern functions rather
than functions that are also in the older gmp-mpfr library too.
</p>
<p>Only the first error is reported for syntax errors in lex/parse
of SPARQL and RDQL since the lack of error recovery means that the
consequent messages are of little use.</p>
<p>Fatal errors in SPARQL and RDQL lexer/parser no longer does an
abort, but exits via setjmp/longjmp.</p>
<h3>Query Engine Changes</h3>
<p>Added internal rowsource class to get rows from an execution
engine or a syntax (query result formatter).</p>
<h3>Graph Pattern Class Changes</h3>
<p>Modified <code>rasqal_graph_pattern_add_sub_graph_pattern()</code> to
have an int return value for catching allocation failures.
</p>
<h3>Query Class Changes</h3>
<p>Modified <code>rasqal_query_add_variable()</code> and
<code>rasqal_query_add_prefix()</code> to have int return values for
catching allocation failures.
</p>
<h3>Query Results Class Changes</h3>
<p>Updated the internals to allow construction of a query result
outside the query engine, such as from a syntax.
</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_query_results_read()</code> to read a query
results from an iostream in some format.
</p>
<p>Modified <code>rasqal_query_results_formats_enumerate()</code> to add
a flags argument with
<code>RASQAL_QUERY_RESULTS_FORMAT_FLAG_READER</code> and
<code>RASQAL_QUERY_RESULTS_FORMAT_FLAG_WRITER</code> choices to
choose formats for read or write enumeration.</p>
<p>Removed function
<code>rasqal_query_results_formats_enumerate_full</code> now handled
by <code>rasqal_query_results_formats_enumerate()</code>.</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_query_results_formatter_read()</code> to read
query results from a syntax via an iostream.</p>
<h3>Variable Class Changes</h3>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_new_variable_from_variable()</code> copy
constructor.</p>
<h2 id="rel0_9_15"><a name="rel0_9_15">Rasqal 0.9.15 Changes</a></h2>
<h3>General Changes</h3>
<p>Many updates for better SPARQL support. Rasqal 0.9.15 passes over
92% of the DAWG SPARQL Test Suite as of 2007-11-13.</p>
<p>Rasqal still does not support either <code>UNION</code> or
<code>GROUP</code> and <code>OPTIONAL</code> remains buggy. There
remain a few other minor areas not yet completely supported such as
XSD <code>date</code> and XSD <code>dateTime</code> equality and
comparisons.
</p>
<blockquote>
<p><b>WARNING: ABI AND API CHANGE in Rasqal 0.9.16. The next
release of Rasqal will be incompatible with this one.</b></p>
<p>It will have both ABI and API changes that will require source
updates.</p>
<p>The shared library major soname will change from 0 to 1.</p>
<p>The header files will move to be installed in
<em>PREFIX</em>/include/rasqal such as
<code>/usr/include/rasqal</code> for usual installs.</p>
<p>The full details of the API change have not been decided but the
driving change is that using the library will be done via a new
Rasqal world object,k will now be used to working like a Redland
<code>librdf_world</code>. All constructors will take this world
object as an argument and all static data will be indirected from the
object. Handlers such as the uri_handler/data and error handlers
will also move to be set/get via the world object.
</p>
<p>There are almost certainly other API changes and cleanups that
will be done, and some possibly some of the data structures may be
made internal.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Fixed issues:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=190">Issue#0000190</a>: Memory leaks in rasqal_literal.c</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=191">Issue#0000191</a>: RAPTOR_API in rasqal.h</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=193">Issue#0000193</a>: SPARQL "ASK" always returns true</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=196">Issue#0000196</a>: Memory leak with RASQAL_REGEX_PCRE</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=197">Issue#0000197</a>: Problem with float comparison in rasqal</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=198">Issue#0000198</a>: rasqal_redland.c compilation errors</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=199">Issue#0000199</a>: SPARQL effective boolean value: empty string literal not false</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=200">Issue#0000200</a>: SPARQL filter scope</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=201">Issue#0000201</a>: SPARQL langMatches patch</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=203">Issue#0000203</a>: API declarations for Symbian portability</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=204">Issue#0000204</a>: SPARQL WHERE is optional</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=219">Issue#0000219</a>: SPARQL BASE makes rasqal query->locator.uri a dangling pointer</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=220">Issue#0000220</a>: Query offset off by one</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=221">Issue#0000221</a>: rasqal_literal_as_integer() with RASQAL_LITERAL_INTEGER literals</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=225">Issue#0000225</a>: SPARQL parser leaks memory on syntax error</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=234">Issue#0000234</a>: autogen.sh $dir quoting</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=235">Issue#0000235</a>: $(EXEEXT) in tests</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=236">Issue#0000236</a>: EOL issues when building svn version on cygwin</li>
</ul>
<h3>SPARQL Query Language Changes</h3>
<p>Many updates to support the SPARQL
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/CR-rdf-sparql-query-20070614/">Candidate Recommendation</a> and
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/PR-rdf-sparql-query-20071112/">Proposed Recommendation</a> versions of the language including:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added <code>REDUCED</code> syntax support (no query engine support)</li>
<li>Added <code>SAMETERM()</code> support.</li>
<li>Allowing numbers at the start of local names.</li>
<li>Allowing <code>@</code><em>lang</em> and
<code>^^</code><em>datatype</em> after triple-quoted literals.</li>
<li>Make unary + and - work</li>
<li>Remove <code>CONSTRUCT *</code> that is no longer in the spec</li>
<li>Removed hexadecimal literals which were never in the spec</li>
<li>Made queries with the <code>ASK</code> verb work again.</li>
<li>Made <code>LANG()</code> and <code>DATATYPE()</code> work to
spec on typed literals.</li>
<li>Remove warning about optional SPARQL <code>WHERE</code>
although it is still a dumb idea to have useless keywords.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Query Engine Changes</h3>
<p>Many internal changes were made including refactoring the engine
core and adding of additional internal documentation for the engine
functions.</p>
<p>Substantial improvements were made to datatypes support:</p>
<ul>
<li>SPARQL / XQuery / XPath numeric type promotion is now supported,
including derived types of <code>xsd:integer</code> etc.</li>
<li>Added XSD <code>xsd:decimal</code> implementation either using
GNU MP, MPFR, C99 <code>_Decimal</code> (but I have yet to find a
working implementation) or by default and inaccurately, C
doubles.</li>
<li>Added XSD <code>xsd:dateTime</code> initial support for validation.</li>
<li>Numeric operations such as +, -, *, / and ! as well as comparisons
are now done in the appropriate datatype (which may be a promotion).</li>
</ul>
<p>Improved the way that literal equality and comparisons work
especially with respect to datatypes. Triple pattern matching
(equality) works with RDF terms. SPARQL <code>FILTER</code> literal
equality and comparisons follow SPARQL rules with possible numeric
type promotion, then using RDF Term if the types are different.
<code>ORDER</code> comparison or <code>DISTINCT</code> equality
checks use RDF Term. RDQL execution uses it's own existing "stringy"
rules.
</p>
<p>Set the query base URI.</p>
<p>Make queries that bind the origin (SPARQL <code>GRAPH</code>)
match correctly against the default graph.
</p>
<p>Memory reduction in stack usage when evaluation expressions
(such as SPARQL <code>FILTER</code>s).</p>
<h3>Public API changes</h3>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_home_url_string</code> static constant.</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_xsd_decimal</code> class and API calls
described below.</p>
<p>Added a <code>decimal</code> part to the rasqal_literal union
value for <code>RASQAL_LITERAL_DECIMAL</code> types.</p>
<p>Added a <code>parent_type</code> part to the rasqal_literal when
the type can be promoted.</p>
<p>Added <code>RASQAL_EXPR_SAMETERM</code> expression</p>
<p>Added <code>RASQAL_COMPARE_RDF</code> and
<code>RASQAL_COMPARE_URI</code> comparison types for RDF Term
comparsion rules and allowing URI comparison (without
<code>STR()</code>) respectively.</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_new_typed_literal()</code> to make an RDF typed
literal from a type and string (no language).</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_new_float_literal()</code> for wrapping a C
<code>float</code> as XSD float.</p>
<p>Added new decimal literal constructor
rasqal_literal* rasqal_new_decimal_literal_from_decimal(const unsigned char *string, rasqal_ xsd_decimal* decimal)
</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_literal_datatype</code> method to get the datatype
URI of a literal.</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_literal_value</code> method to get the literal
value of a literal, looking up any variables to their value.
FIXME should this not involve query results?
</p>
<p>Added addition <code>rasqal_triple_parts</code> enums:
<code>RASQAL_TRIPLE_GRAPH</code> for just the named graph part
<code>RASQAL_TRIPLE_SPO</code> for subject, predicate and objects and
<code>RASQAL_TRIPLE_SPOG</code> for all parts including named grpah.
</p>
<h3>Decimal Class</h3>
<p>A new <code>rasqal_xsd_decimal</code> class was added to handle
XSD decimals with accurate decimal arithmetic.</p>
<p>Constructor:</p>
<pre>
rasqal_xsd_decimal* rasqal_new_xsd_decimal(void);
</pre>
<p>Destructor:</p>
<pre>
void rasqal_free_xsd_decimal(rasqal_xsd_decimal* dec);
</pre>
<p>Methods:</p>
<pre>
double rasqal_xsd_decimal_get_double(rasqal_xsd_decimal* dec);
int rasqal_xsd_decimal_set_double(rasqal_xsd_decimal* dec, double d);
iint rasqal_xsd_decimal_set_string(rasqal_xsd_decimal* dec, const char* string);
int rasqal_xsd_decimal_set_long(rasqal_xsd_decimal* dec, long l);
int rasqal_xsd_decimal_print(rasqal_xsd_decimal* dec, FILE* stream);
char* rasqal_xsd_decimal_as_string(rasqal_xsd_decimal* dec);
char* rasqal_xsd_decimal_as_counted_string(rasqal_xsd_decimal* dec, size_t* len_p);
</pre>
<p>Numeric methods (writing to the <code>result</code> argument):</p>
<pre>
int rasqal_xsd_decimal_add(rasqal_xsd_decimal* result,
rasqal_xsd_decimal* a, rasqal_xsd_decimal* b);
int rasqal_xsd_decimal_subtract(rasqal_xsd_decimal* result,
rasqal_xsd_decimal* a, rasqal_xsd_decimal* b);
int rasqal_xsd_decimal_multiply(rasqal_xsd_decimal* result,
rasqal_xsd_decimal* a, rasqal_xsd_decimal* b);
int rasqal_xsd_decimal_divide(rasqal_xsd_decimal* result,
rasqal_xsd_decimal* a, rasqal_xsd_decimal* b);
int rasqal_xsd_decimal_negate(rasqal_xsd_decimal* result,
rasqal_xsd_decimal* a);
</pre>
<p>Comparison methods:</p>
<pre>
int rasqal_xsd_decimal_compare(rasqal_xsd_decimal* a, rasqal_xsd_decimal* b);
int rasqal_xsd_decimal_equals(rasqal_xsd_decimal* a, rasqal_xsd_decimal* b);
int rasqal_xsd_decimal_is_zero(rasqal_xsd_decimal* d);
</pre>
<h3>Query Results Formatter Class Changes</h3>
<p>Updated to the 4th version of the SPARQL XML Results format by
removing the <code>ordered</code> and <code>distict</code>
attributes. Removed support for all the earlier versions 1 to 3.</p>
<h3><code>roqet</code> Utility Changes</h3>
<p>Added <code>-D</code> / <code>--data</code> options for specifying
data URis for the default graph and <code>-G</code> /
<code>--named</code> for URIs of named graphs (the existing
<code>-s</code> is a also a synonym for the latter).
</p>
<h3>Other Changes</h3>
<p>Many internal fixes and cleanups after failures so that memory is
not lost and/or rasqal does not crash. These many changes were
primarily made by Lauri Aalto.</p>
<p>Several portability fixes for helping with low-memory, embedded
systems and using a compiler that is not gcc.
</p>
<p>The SPARQL test runner <code>check-sparql</code> was improved to
read the SPARQL XML Results format (but not via
<code>XML::Simple</code> because it is insanely complex and
counterintuitive), handle DAWG test manifests and generate EARL
reports. It also has new help and usage messages.
</p>
<h2 id="rel0_9_14"><a name="rel0_9_14">Rasqal 0.9.14 Changes</a></h2>
<h3>General Changes</h3>
<p>Added syntax and API support (but no query engine support)
for <b>experimental</b> extensions to SPARQL called
<a href="http://www.dajobe.org/2007/04/laqrs/">LAQRS</a>:
LAQRS Adds to Querying RDF in SPARQL.
</p>
<p>Updated the query results formatter to allow better introspection
of supported formats.</p>
<p>Fixed issues:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=152">Issue#0000152</a>: Allow <code>&lt;_:NAME&gt;</code> to work as <code>_:NAME</code> in SPARQL.</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=156">Issue#0000156</a>: Add LAQRS extensions to SPARQL grammar</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=160">Issue#0000160</a>: rasqal_strcasecmp without prototype</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=167">Issue#0000167</a>: Make CONSTRUCT work with LIMIT</li>
<li><a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=182">Issue#0000182</a>: Allow '-' in SPARQL language tags (and RDQL)</li>
</ul>
<h3>LAQRS Adds to Querying RDF in SPARQL (LAQRS)</h3>
<p>LAQRS is <b>experimental</b> and Rasqal provides only syntax and
API support (but no query engine support) for:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>DELETE</code> via query verb <code>RASQAL_QUERY_VERB_DELETE</code></li>
<li><code>EXPLAIN</code> as a keyword allowed before any query. Returned by <code>rasqal_query_get_explain()</code></li>
<li><code>INSERT</code> via query verb <code>RASQAL_QUERY_VERB_INSERT</code></li>
<li><code>COUNT()</code> and COUNT(*) via new expressions <code>RASQAL_EXPR_COUNT</code> and <code>RASQAL_EXPR_VARSTAR</code></li>
<li><code>SELECT </code><em>expression</em> <code>AS</code> <em>variable</em> via the new expression field of rasqal_variable</li>
<li><code>GROUP BY</code> results via rasqal_query_get_group_conditions_sequence() and rasqal_query_get_group_condition() and new expressions <code>RASQAL_EXPR_GROUP_COND_ASC</code> and <code>RASQAL_EXPR_GROUP_COND_DESC</code></li>
</ul>
<p>Repeating <b>THERE IS NO QUERY ENGINE SUPPORT FOR ANY OF THE ABOVE</b></p>
<p>LAQRS is not enabled by default in Rasqal (unless using
maintainer mode or building from Subversion). To enable it,
configure Rasqal like this:</p>
<pre>
$ ./configure '--enable-query-languages=sparql rdql laqrs'
...
Rasqal build summary:
RDF query languages available : rdql sparql
RDF query languages enabled : sparql rdql laqrs
Triples source : raptor 1.4.15
$
</pre>
<p>The API changes for LAQRS are as follows:</p>
<p>Added new query verbs <code>RASQAL_QUERY_VERB_DELETE</code> and
<code>RASQAL_QUERY_VERB_INSERT</code>
</p>
<p>Added a constructor to create a constant or 0-operand expression
(for COUNT):</p>
<pre>
rasqal_expression* rasqal_new_0op_expression(rasqal_op op);
</pre>
<p>Added a query method to get the explain flag:</p>
<pre>
int rasqal_query_get_explain(rasqal_query* query);
</pre>
<p>Added a query method to get the 'group by' condition expressions:</p>
<pre>
raptor_sequence*
rasqal_query_get_group_conditions_sequence(rasqal_query* query);
rasqal_expression*
rasqal_query_get_group_condition(rasqal_query* query, int idx);
</pre>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_expression</code> expression types:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>RASQAL_EXPR_GROUP_COND_ASC</code> for group condition ascending.</li>
<li><code>RASQAL_EXPR_GROUP_COND_DESC</code> for group condition descending.</li>
<li><code>RASQAL_EXPR_COUNT</code> for select <code>COUNT()</code></li>
<li><code>RASQAL_EXPR_VARSTAR</code> for select <code>COUNT(*)</code></li>
</ul>
<p><code>rasqal_variable</code> now has
a <code>rasqal_expression*</code> field <code>expression</code>.
</p>
<h3>Configuration and Build Changes</h3>
<p>The pkgconfig rasqal.pc file and the <code>rasqal-config</code>
script now separates directly linked shared libraries and indirectly
linked ones. This prevents unnecessary references to libraries. The
regular libraries includes -L plus <code>-lrasqal</code> and the
dynamic and static libraries are available with:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>pkgconfig rasqal --static --libs</code></li>
<li><code>rasqal-config --libs --private-libs</code></li>
</ul>
<p>So for example to statically link with rasqal, use either:</p>
<pre>
$ cc .. -o foo foo.c `pkgconfig rasqal --static --libs`
$ cc .. -o foo foo.c `rasqal-config --libs --private-libs`
</pre>
<h3>Query Results Formatter Changes</h3>
<p>Made it easier to discover and create of query results in a syntax
by using a MIME Type.</p>
<p>Added query results formatter constructor by required mime type:</p>
<pre>
rasqal_query_results_formatter*
rasqal_new_query_results_formatter_by_mime_type(const char *mime_type);
</pre>
<p>Added a method to return the mime type of a selected formatter:</p>
<pre>
const char*
rasqal_query_results_formatter_get_mime_type(
rasqal_query_results_formatter *formatter);
</pre>
<p>Added another query results formatter static method to enumerate
possible results formats, their names, labels and (new) mime type.</p>
<pre>
int
rasqal_query_results_formats_enumerate_full(const unsigned int counter,
const char **name, const char **label,
const unsigned char **uri_string, const char **mime_type);
</pre>
<p>Added a static method to check for support for a query results
format.</p>
<pre>
int rasqal_query_results_formats_check(const char *name,
raptor_uri* uri, const char *mime_type);
</pre>
<h3>SPARQL Query Language Changes</h3>
<p>Updated for the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20070326/">SPARQL Query Language for RDF</a>, W3C Working Draft 26 March 2007</p>
<ul>
<li>Added <code>REDUCED</code> token. This entailed changing the
distinct flag from a boolean to a mode.
<code>rasqal_query_get_distinct</code> and
<code>rasqal_query_set_distinct</code> now takes a mode (0, 1
DISTINCT, 2 REDUCED) rather than the former boolean flag.
There is no query engine support for REDUCED at present.
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Query Engine Changes</h3>
<p>Added the possibility that a query's native result is a syntax
(rather than natively bindings, boolean or triples) and added
a method to check for that:</p>
<pre>
int rasqal_query_results_is_syntax(rasqal_query_results* query_results);
</pre>
<p>Many query engine internal changes, but these remain unsupported:
OPTIONAL graph pattern (partially working), GROUP graph pattern (no
support), UNION graph pattern (no support) and new <code>SELECT
REDUCED</code> (no support).
</p>
<h3><code>roqet</code> Utility Changes</h3>
<p><code>roqet</code> can use -r to generate a chosen result syntax
for bindings results or triples (using raptor).</p>
<p>roqet now generates namespace declarations for triples when
serializing output. The result is that they are used when the
serializer handles them such as generating RDF/XML (Abbreviated)
or Turtle.
</p>
<h3>Other Changes</h3>
<p><code>rasqal_expression</code> lost the unused
<code>rasqal_variable*</code> field <code>variable</code>
</p>
<p>Added exported variables to return the license string
in <code>rasqal_license_string</code>
and home page in <code>rasqal_home_url_string</code>
</p>
<h2 id="rel0_9_13"><a name="rel0_9_13">Rasqal 0.9.13 Changes</a></h2>
<h3>General Changes</h3>
<p>Added a new <code>rasqal_query_results_formatter</code> class.
</p>
<p>Many internal query engine changes, mostly to separate query and
query_results internals so that eventually the run-time execution
context is entirely separated from the static query structure.
</p>
<p>Added query features system with one initial feature
<code>RASQAL_FEATURE_NO_NET</code>.</p>
<h3>Configuration and Build Changes</h3>
<p>Allow shell variable <code>LEX</code> to be set to things that
aren't exactly <code>flex</code> Recommend flex 2.5.33 and update
configure to point at the main flex site whichq finally gets 2.5.33
after 9 years.</p>
<p><code>PKGCONFIG</code> vars not substituted
correctly in configure.ac. Remove @LDFLAGS from rasqal.pc.in.
Fixes <a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=98">Issue#0000098</a>.
</p>
<p>Win32 build fixes.Correct win32 static linking of rasqal.
(Fixes <a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=100">Issue#0000100</a>)
and include float.h and <code>#define isnan</code> on win32.
(Fixes <a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=111">Issue#0000111</a>).
</p>
<p>In maintainer mode, add all the supported compiler <code>-W</code>
warning flags to the CFLAGS.
</p>
<p>Declare several rasqal functions with GCC printf-formatting
attributes when using a new enough GCC.</p>
<p>Remove broken debug messages.
<a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=131">#0000131</a>.
</p>
<h3>SPARQL Query Language Changes</h3>
<p>Added labels to grammar tokens using bison to give better error messages.</p>
<p>Fix looking for EOF in an unsigned variable since it may be negative
on some systems.</p>
<p>The query engine now implements SPARQL <code>GRAPH</code> matching.
</p>
<h3>RDQL Query Language Changes</h3>
<p>Added labels to grammar tokens using bison to give better error messages.</p>
<p>Fix looking for EOF in an unsigned variable since it may be negative
on some systems.</p>
<h3>Query Engine Changes</h3>
<p>The query engine now implements SPARQL <code>GRAPH</code> matching.
</p>
<p>Merge only all adjacent sequences of basic graph pattern triples, not
anything with triples such as optional BGP triples.
Fixes <a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=80">Issue#0000080</a>.
</p>
<p>When an exact triple match is present, do not execute a query forever.
Fixes <a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=94">Issue#0000094</a>.
</p>
<p> Fail if a variable argument to <code>LANG()</code> has an
undefined value rather than try to execute a NULL pointer.
Fixes <a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=113">Issue#0000113</a>.
</p>
<p>Add query / query_results link early so reference counting is done right.
Fixes <a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=95">Issue#0000095</a>.
</p>
<p>Report failure as well as query finished when an error occurs
during making results.
Fixes <a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=118">Issue#0000118</a>.
</p>
<p>Added a hack to check an outer constraint expression.
Fixes <a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=129">Issue#0000129</a>.
</p>
<p>Free origins (<code>GRAPH</code> nodes) in triples to prevent memory leak.
Fixes <a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=133">Issue#0000133</a>.
</p>
<h3>Query API Changes</h3>
<p>Added a new <code>rasqal_query_results_formatter</code> class to
format <code>librdf_query_results</code> into a syntax. Also added
a <code>rasqal_query_results_formats_enumerate()</code> function to
enumerate all the supported formats. The query results
method <code>rasqal_query_results_write()</code> was changed to use
this class internally.
</p>
<p>Added a new feature system to allow setting parameters on
the query parser/engine. Initially have one
feature <code>RASQAL_FEATURE_NO_NET</code> that prevents
network requests during a query execution.
Added functions:
<code>rasqal_features_enumerate</code>,
<code>rasqal_get_feature_count</code>,
<code>rasqal_feature_from_uri</code>,
<code>rasqal_feature_value_type</code>,
<code>rasqal_query_set_feature</code>,
<code>rasqal_query_set_feature_string</code>,
<code>rasqal_query_get_feature</code>,
<code>rasqal_query_get_feature_string</code>.
</p>
<p><code>roqet</code> gained a <code>-f</code>
/ <code>--feature</code> option to set query features.
</p>
<h2 id="rel0_9_12"><a name="rel0_9_12">Rasqal 0.9.12 Changes</a></h2>
<h3>General Changes</h3>
<p>Added <a href="http://json.org/">JSON</a> as a query results
format based on the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/json-sparql/">Serializing SPARQL Query Results in JSON</a>
draft.
</p>
<p>Added query writing to a <code>raptor_iostream</code> which allows
reading in one query language and writing in another. The only
useful consequence of this now is that it enables <code>roqet</code>
to become an RDQL to SPARQL translator.</p>
<p>Rasqal now requires <a href="http://librdf.org/raptor/">raptor</a>
1.4.9 or newer.
</p>
<h3>Configuration and Build Changes</h3>
<p>Now using subversion.</p>
<h3><code>roqet</code> utility Changes</h3>
<p>Altered the <code>-d</code> (<code>--dump-query</code>) option to
now take an argument of the query format to dump. The values it can
take are <code>debug</code>, <code>structure</code> or
<code>sparql</code>.</p>
<p>To convert a query from RDQL to SPARQL, use:</p>
<pre>
roqet -q -i rdql -d sparql -n query.rdql > query.sparql
</pre>
<p>Added <code>-r json</code> for <a href="http://json.org/">JSON</a>
query results output based on the draft defined in the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/json-sparql/">Serializing SPARQL Query Results in JSON</a> draft
</p>
<h3>SPARQL Query Language Changes</h3>
<p>Updated to match
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-rdf-sparql-query-20060406/">SPARQL Query Language for RDF, W3C Candidate Recommendation 6 April 2006</a>.
All DAWG syntax tests now pass.
The update includes near alignment with SPARQL grammar term names
except where the flex/bison approach diverged.</p>
<p>Updated SPARQL tests from DAWG CVS</p>
<p>Finally removed long deprecated <code>ASC[]</code> and
<code>DESC[]</code> syntax.</p>
<h3>RDQL Query Language Changes</h3>
<p>Handle empty regex <code>//</code>
Fixes <a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=71">Issue#0000071</a>
</p>
<h3>Query Engine Changes</h3>
<p>Some updates to handle latest changes to SPARQL grammar.</p>
<p>Added <code>RASQAL_EXPR_REGEX</code> 3-arg operation to match
the SPARQL <code>regex()</code> 2/3-arg function.</p>
<p>Many internal changes to move more of the query execution state
from inside <code>rasqal_query</code> to
inside <code>rasqal_query_results</code> and related structures.
This is not yet complete but when done, you will be able to execute
the same query more than once at the same time.
</p>
<h3>Query API Changes</h3>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_query_write</code> to write a query
structure into a syntax onto a raptor_iostream. Implements
writing SPARQL format with format URI NULL,
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/">http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/</a>
or
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-rdf-sparql-query-20060406/">http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/CR-rdf-sparql-query-20060406/</a>
</p>
<p>Added a <a href="http://json.org/">JSON</a>
SPARQL query results format with format URI identifier
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/json-sparql/">http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/json-sparql/</a>
based on the draft defined in
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/json-sparql/">http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/json-sparql/</a>
Implemented document with version
<code>alt-ser-sparql.rst,v 1.3 2006/02/16 16:03:08 k Exp</code>.
</p>
<p><code>rasqal_query_get_all_variable_sequence</code> was corrected to match the
definition - return all variables, not just the bound (<code>SELECT</code>ed) ones.
Fixes <a href="http://bugs.librdf.org/mantis/view.php?id=79">Issue#00000079</a>.
</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_query_get_anonymous_variable_sequence</code> to return
only anonymous variables after change above.
</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_graph_pattern_get_index</code> to get the
absolute index of a graph pattern in a graph.
</p>
<h3>IOstream class Changes</h3>
<p>Added
<code>rasqal_query_iostream_write_escaped_counted_string</code> and
<code>rasqal_query_escape_counted_string</code>
to format an escaped string suitable for using inside a query.
</p>
<h3>Documentation Changes</h3>
<p>Updated <code>roqet.1</code> for --exec option and new usages.</p>
<h2 id="rel0_9_11"><a name="rel0_9_11">Rasqal 0.9.11 Changes</a></h2>
<h3>General Changes</h3>
<p>Duplicated <code>SELECT</code> variables are now detected, give a
warning and are removed.
</p>
<p>Rasqal now requires <a href="http://librdf.org/raptor/">raptor</a>
1.4.8 or newer to get the <em>guess</em> parser that uses URI/name
and mime type returned from protocol request (if available) to choose
the correct parser.
</p>
<p>Added an internal <code>rasqal_map</code> key : value map for use
with result duplicate detection and ordering.
</p>
<p>A major source code regoranisation moved all library source code
to the <code>src/</code> dir, roqet to <code>utils/</code> and other
documentation to <code>docs/</code>. This should only affect
packagers, not any functionality.</p>
<p>Many more function documentation were added to the sources for use
by gtk-doc.</p>
<h3>SPARQL Query Language Changes</h3>
<p>Updated to the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20051123/">SPARQL Query Language for RDF W3C Working Draft 23 November 2005</a>:</p>
<ul>
<li>Added <code>isIRI</code> keywords.</li>
<li>Updated the name definitions to allow initial _ in variable names.</li>
<li>Changed the decimal and double literal syntax.</li>
<li>Allow negative numeric literals.</li>
<li>Change the AND and OR logic when an error is present.</li>
</ul>
<p>Added a post 2005-11-23 SPARQL WD syntax change: added
<code>langMatches</code> operator and initial query engine support.
</p>
<p>Invalid <code>\u</code><em>HHHH</em> and
<code>\U</code><em>HHHHHHHH</em> hex escapes and floating point
number formats are detected and warned.</p>
<p>Updates to the query engine make <code>DISTINCT</code>
and <code>ORDER BY</code> now work, including with <code>LIMIT</code>.
</p>
<p>The lexer now counts line numbers correctly over multi-line
comments.</p>
<p>Updated changes to the valid characters allowed in SPARQL names
for variable, prefix and QNames.</p>
<h3>RDQL Query Language Changes</h3>
<p>The lexer now counts line numbers correctly over multi-line
comments.</p>
<h3>Query Engine Changes</h3>
<p>When query result sorting is used with limit
(SPARQL <code>LIMIT</code>) and offset, they now work correctly,
performing the limit and offset after ordering the result. This
matches the SPARQL query result semantics.
</p>
<p>The query engine now implements distinct results
(SPARQL <code>DISTINCT</code>) including with ordering
(SPARQL <code>ORDER BY</code>).
</p>
<p>More cases with optional graph patterns (SPARQL
<code>OPTIONAL</code>s) are now executed correctly.
Note: this does <em>not</em> mean all cases work, there are known
problems with executing optional clauses.</p>
<p>Added types for <code>xsd:float</code> (C float)
and <code>xsd:double</code> (C double); <code>xsd:decimal</code>
(handled as a string) and <code>xsd:datetime</code> (as a string).
</p>
<p>Fixed (a compare b) between integers and doubles to be the right sign.
</p>
<p>Do not promote literals early on in comparisons to strings "perl
style" but do the best type-based comparsion as late as possible.
</p>
<h3>Query API Changes</h3>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_new_double_literal</code>.</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_graph_pattern_visit</code> and type for visitor
function <code>rasqal_graph_pattern_visit_fn</code>.
</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_new_expression_from_expression</code>.</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_expression_visit</code> and type for visitor
function <code>rasqal_expression_visit_fn</code>.
</p>
<p>Deprecated function <code>rasqal_new_floating_literal</code> replaced by
new <code>rasqal_new_double_literal</code>.
</p>
<p>Deprecated function <code>rasqal_expression_foreach</code>,
replaced by new <code>rasqal_expression_visit</code>.
</p>
<p>Function <code>rasqal_expression_evaluate</code> gains a flag
argument of new enum <code>rasqal_compare_flags</code>.</p>
<p>Added enum <code>rasqal_compare_flags</code> flags for
<code>rasqal_expression_evaluate</code> or
<code>rasqal_literal_compare</code>. Type
<code>RASQAL_COMPARE_XQUERY</code> can be used with
to ask for use of XQuery comparison and type promotions.
</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_literal</code> types:
<code>RASQAL_LITERAL_DECIMAL</code>,
<code>RASQAL_LITERAL_DATETIME</code>,
<code>RASQAL_LITERAL_DOUBLE</code> (replacing deprecated
<code>RASQAL_LITERAL_FLOATING</code>) and
<code>RASQAL_LITERAL_FLOAT</code>. Reordered the
<code>rasqal_literal</code> types in the enum.
</p>
<p>The enum types in <code>rasqal_literal_type</code> were reordered
to make them match sparql type promotion.</p>
<h3><code>roqet</code> utility program changes</h3>
<p><code>roqet</code> gains -e/--exec option to execute a query
string directly rather than via a file or URI containing the query.
</p>
<p>Now writes out XML results format in format with version URI
<code>http://www.w3.org/2005/06/sparqlResults</code> and short name
"xml". The previous version is available with short name "xml-v2".
The latest version now writes <code>ordered</code>
and <code>distinct</code> boolean-valued attributes on
the <code>results</code> element.
</p>
<h3>Configuration Changes</h3>
<p>The autogen.sh script for building from CVS was revamped to be
more modular.</p>
<p><code>configure</code> now takes an <code>--enable-gtk-doc</code>
option to enable building of the documentation using the
<code>gtk-doc</code> utility. It is by default enabled only if the
utility is available.
</p>
<h3>Documentation Changes</h3>
<p>The GNOME <code>gtk-doc</code> program is now used to
automatically extract documentation from source comments into
reference documentation. This is then merged with templates and
additional documentation to provide a reference manual for rasqal
as XML document which is turned into HTML along with GNOME devhelp
support.</p>
<p>This new documentation intended to replace the librasqal manual
page/web page as easier to read document with scope for better
expanding with more detail of rasqal including examples and tutorial
information.
The <a href="http://librdf.org/rasqal/librasqal.html">librasqal</a>
manual page will continue to contain the summary information for the
present.
</p>
<h2 id="rel0_9_10"><a name="rel0_9_10">Rasqal 0.9.10 Changes</a></h2>
<h3>General Changes</h3>
<p>The query engine now supports ordering query results, in SPARQL
this is the <code>ORDER BY</code> clause.</p>
<h3>SPARQL Query Language Changes</h3>
<p>The SPARQL parser now passes (accepts) all the 70+
<em>SyntaxFull</em> tests in the RDF Data Access Working Group (DAWG)
test suite for SPARQL. This mostly means accepting optional
punctuation in some places.
</p>
<p>Sorting results with <code>ORDER BY</code> now partially works
however comparison is not done with the SPARQL literal comparison
rules (after XQuery) but using the existing RDQL-style "string-y"
comparisons.
</p>
<p>Allow <code>&lt;&gt;</code> as a URI.</p>
<p>The SPARQL parser now accepts some changes made by the DAWG after
the last published working draft:
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20050419/">SPARQL Query Language for RDF</a>,
W3C Working Draft, 19 April 2005. This includes:</p>
<ul>
<li>In <code>ORDER BY</code>
<code>ASC(</code>expression<code>)</code> replaces <code>ASC[...]</code>,
<code>DESC(</code>expression<code>)</code> replaces <code>DESC[...]</code>,
and it also accepts <code>ORDER BY (</code>expression<code>)</code>.
<code>ORDER BY </code>func()<code></code> is accepted although at
present no extension function support is available that could use it.
</li>
<li><code>[]</code> can be used in the triple predicate position
as an anonymous existential variable</li>
<li>Enforce that ASK queries cannot use <code>ORDER BY</code>,
<code>LIMIT</code> or <code>OFFSET</code></li>
</ul>
<p>Omitting <code>WHERE</code> gives a warning. Don't do that!</p>
<h3>Query Engine Changes</h3>
<p>The query engine now allows sorting of results (<code>ORDER BY</code>
in SPARQL). It performs comparisons using the existing RDQL style
and does not yet support the SPARQL literal comparison rules. Sorting
can be done by a sequence of expressions, ascending or descending.
If the final result is equality, the object pointers are used.</p>
<p>Note: removal of duplicates is not supported yet.</p>
<p>Some test code for datatypes support was added, not enabled by
default and not yet useful.</p>
<h3>Query API Changes</h3>
<p>Removed functions deprecated in 0.9.9.</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_graph_pattern_operator</code> enumeration with
values for the main SPARQL graph patterns, graph pattern class method
<code>rasqal_graph_pattern_get_operator</code> and graph pattern
utility function <code>rasqal_graph_pattern_operator_as_string</code></p>
<p>Modified the type of the final argument of
<code>rasqal_new_graph_pattern_from_sequence</code> and
<code>rasqal_graph_pattern_add_triples</code> from an integer to a
<code>rasqal_graph_pattern_operator</code> enumeration.</p>
<p>Deprecated function <code>rasqal_graph_pattern_get_flags</code>
now always returning 0 replaced by the graph pattern operator
functions listed above .</p>
<h3><code>roqet</code> utility program changes</h3>
<p>Removed deprecated flags -f and -o</p>
<h2 id="rel0_9_9"><a name="rel0_9_9">Rasqal 0.9.9 Changes</a></h2>
<h3>General Changes</h3>
<p>SPARQL is now the default query language</p>
<p>Added a signing memory debugging system to aid checking when
rasqal-allocated memory is freed in another library or vice-versa
enabled by <code>--with-memory-signing</code> configure option
(defaults to on in maintainer mode).</p>
<p>Fixed a few internal malloc/frees to use RASQAL_MALLOC / RASQAL_FREE
so that the above signed memory system worked.</p>
<h3>SPARQL Query Language Changes</h3>
<p>Grammar updated to follow the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20050419/">SPARQL Query Language for RDF</a>,
W3C Working Draft, 19 April 2005. This changes many parts of the syntax:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Turtle/N3 style for triples with abbreviations</li>
<li><code>{</code> ... <code>}</code> around triple patterns</li>
<li><code>OPTIONAL</code> instead of <code>[]</code></li>
<li><code>GRAPH</code> replaces <code>SOURCE</code></li>
<li><code>FROM NAMED</code> replaces <code>LOAD</code></li>
<li><code>FILTER</code> replaces <code>AND</code></li>
<li><code>REGEX</code> replaces <code>?var =~ /match/flags</code>
and <code>!~</code></li>
<li>Added <code>LIMIT</code>, <code>OFFSET</code> and
<code>ORDER BY</code> with <code>ASC[]</code> and <code>DESC[]</code></li>
<li>Changed function syntax to remove <code>&amp;</code></li>
<li>Removed old operator tokens: <code>ne</code>, <code>eq</code>, <code>==</code></li>
</ul>
<p>(Note: the query engine does not support sorting amongst other
recently added SPARQL features)</p>
<p>SPARQL keywords are now case independent rather than just upper
or lowercase.</p>
<p>Added """long literals""" after N3 (and soon, Turtle)
and '''long literals''' for SPARQL only.
</p>
<p>Added many SPARQL tests from DAWG most not yet approved by the
working group. Not all pass either because not implemented or
known bugs.</p>
<p>Added the revised
<em>SPARQL Query Results XML Format</em> (the latest version not yet published)
support to <code>rasqal_query_results_write</code> when called with
format URI <code>http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/rf1/result2</code>.
</p>
<h3>Query Engine Changes</h3>
<p>Uses the query results limit and offset information to skip
initial results (offset) and provide a maximum number of results (limit).
</p>
<p>Moved some engine-specific operations from RDQL and SPARQL parser.
</p>
<p>Added internal <code>rasqal_formula</code> class for the Turtle
part of the SPARQL parser
</p>
<p><strong>Deprecated</strong> the <code>rasqal_triples_source</code>
factory method <code>new_triples_match</code>. It is replaced by a
new method <code>init_triples_match</code> and will be removed from
the next release.</p>
<h3>Query API Changes</h3>
<p>Added bnode identifier generation functions:
<code>rasqal_query_set_default_generate_bnodeid_parameters</code>,
<code>rasqal_query_set_generate_bnodeid_handler</code> based on the
raptor API for generating blank node identifiers in the Turtle/N3
triple style.
</p>
<p>Added <code>order_conditions_sequence</code> to the query
structure to store query ordering conditions and added access methods
<code>rasqal_query_get_order_conditions_sequence</code> and
<code>rasqal_query_get_order_condition</code> to read the resulting
expressions.
</p>
<p>Added expressions for SPARQL ordering conditions:
<code>RASQAL_EXPR_ORDER_COND_ASC</code>,
<code>RASQAL_EXPR_ORDER_COND_DESC</code> and
<code>RASQAL_EXPR_ORDER_COND_NONE</code>.
</p>
<p>Added types for variables in two version - normal and anonymous
with an new enum <code>rasqal_variable_type</code> and
<code>rasqal_new_variable_typed</code> to allow creating them.
</p>
<p>Completed the distinct/limit and offset get/set methods by adding:
<code>rasqal_query_set_distinct</code>,
<code>rasqal_query_set_limit</code>,
<code>rasqal_query_get_offset</code> and
<code>rasqal_query_set_offset</code>
</p>
<p>Deprecated the <code>rasqal_triple</code> flags field - the value
<code>RASQAL_TRIPLE_FLAGS_EXACT</code> was only used in internals of
the execution engine. The value
<code>RASQAL_TRIPLE_FLAGS_OPTIONAL</code> was never used. Optionals
are now noted on graph patterns. Deprecated
<code>rasqal_triple_set_flags</code> and
<code>rasqal_triple_get_flags</code>.
</p>
<p>Added enum <code>rasqal_query_verb</code> for the main query verbs:
<code>RASQAL_QUERY_VERB_SELECT</code>
<code>RASQAL_QUERY_VERB_CONSTRUCT</code>
<code>RASQAL_QUERY_VERB_DESCRIBE</code> and
<code>RASQAL_QUERY_VERB_ASK</code>.
Added method <code>rasqal_query_get_verb</code> to access the verb.
</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_query_get_query_graph_pattern</code> to get the
top graph pattern.</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_query_get_wildcard</code> to get the query verb
wildcard flag such as with SPARQL <code>SELECT *</code>
</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_query_get_construct_triples_sequence</code> and
<code>rasqal_query_get_construct_triple</code> to get the triples
made from a SPARQL <code>CONSTRUCT</code> query.</p>
<h3><code>roqet</code> utility program changes</h3>
<p>Updated roqet to include better query structure walking with
<code>-w</code> / <code>--walk</code> including listing query verb,
distinct, limit, offset flags, construct triples and easier to read
groupings of graph patterns and triples.</p>
<p>Deprecated roqet arguments <code>-f</code> / <code>--format</code>
and <code>-o</code> / <code>--output</code> in place of
<code>-r</code> / <code>--results</code> as both choose the query
results format.
</p>
<p>SPARQL is now the default query language for roqet.</p>
<h2 id="rel0_9_8"><a name="rel0_9_8">Rasqal 0.9.8 Changes</a></h2>
<h3>SPARQL Query Language Changes</h3>
<p>Grammar updated to follow the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20050217/">SPARQL Query Language for RDF</a>,
W3C Working Draft, 17 February 2005.
</p>
<p>Added support for casting in constraint expresions for datatyped literals
with the syntax <em>qname</em><code>(</code><em>literal</em><code>)</code>
such as <code>xsd:decimal("10")</code>.
</p>
<p>Added named graphs parsing with <code>LOAD</code> and note that
<code>UNION</code> cannot be handled yet, <code>SOURCE</code> and
<code>[</code>...<code>]</code> syntax for optionals are deprecated.
</p>
<h3>Query Engine Changes</h3>
<p>Engine now operates over a hierarchy of
<code>rasqal_graph_pattern</code> objects, where at the root the
query has a single <em>query graph</em> rather than a sequence of
graph patterns. The query graph contains the former sequence of
graph patterns.</p>
<p>Constraints can be applied to any graph pattern, not just at the
top level of a query.</p>
<p>Added casting expressions type <code>RASQAL_EXPR_CAST</code>
and constructor <code>rasqal_new_cast_expression</code>.</p>
<p>Fixed setting of a triple origin (SPARQL <code>GRAPH</code>) which
was not working in 0.9.7</p>
<p><code>xsd:boolean</code> RDF literals are now promoted into
internal <code>RASQAL_LITERAL_BOOLEAN</code> typed
<code>rasqal_literal</code> like for XSD integer and double.
</p>
<p>The query engine uses the named graph information when evaluating
queries, passing it to the <code>rasqal_triples_match</code> factory
methods either implemented with raptor or redland as a
<code>rasqal_triples_source_factory</code> and returning them
as results of variable bindings.
</p>
<h3>Query API Changes</h3>
<p>Added no-arg constructor
<code>rasqal_new_graph_pattern</code>
</p>
<p>Added method
<code>rasqal_graph_pattern_add_triples</code>
to add triples to an existing graph pattern.
</p>
<p>Added methods
<code>rasqal_graph_pattern_add_constraint</code>,
<code>rasqal_graph_pattern_get_constraint_sequence</code> and
<code>rasqal_graph_pattern_get_constraint</code>
to add constraints to a graph pattern.
</p>
<p>Added method
<code>rasqal_graph_pattern_add_sub_graph_pattern</code>
to add a sub-graph pattern to a graph pattern.
</p>
<p>Added a <em>Data Graph</em> class with constructor
<code>rasqal_new_data_graph</code>, destructor
<code>rasqal_free_data_graph</code> and debug method
<code>rasqal_data_graph_print</code>.
</p>
<p>Added query methods for data graphs:
<code>rasqal_query_add_data_graph</code>,
<code>rasqal_query_get_data_graph_sequence</code>,
<code>rasqal_query_get_data_graph</code>.
</p>
<p>Deprecated query methods
<code>rasqal_query_add_constraint</code>,
<code>rasqal_query_get_constraint_sequence</code>
<code>rasqal_query_get_constraint</code>,
<code>rasqal_query_add_source</code>,
<code>rasqal_query_get_source_sequence</code> and
<code>rasqal_query_get_source</code>. These will be removed in the
next release.</p>
<p>Removed functions deprecated in previous version:
<code>rasqal_query_get_variable_sequence</code>
and <code>rasqal_query_add_triple</code>.
</p>
<h2 id="rel0_9_7"><a name="rel0_9_7">Rasqal 0.9.7 Changes</a></h2>
<h3>General Changes</h3>
<p>Fix a resource clean up when query results are either not read at
all or not fully exhausted. This caused a problem in Redland when it
held on to MySQL database handles despite a query having ended.</p>
<p>Added option <code>-n/--dryrun</code> to <code>roqet</code> to stop after
preparing the query. Added option <code>-w/--walk-query</code> to
walk and print the query using the graph API.</p>
<p>New build configuration and portability fixes for win32 (John Barstow)</p>
<p>Portability fixes for win32 - define <code>RASQAL_INLINE</code>
and use it as for raptor. (Dave Viner)</p>
<p>Make rasqal tests work when building against raptor in a sibling
source tree.</p>
<h3>Query Engine Changes</h3>
<p>Added a graph pattern API with <code>rasqal_graph_pattern</code>
typedef and <code>rasqal_pattern_flags</code> enum with value
<code>RASQAL_PATTERN_FLAGS_OPTIONAL</code> to allow complete
walking of the query structure.</p>
<p>Two new methods to the query class were added to support this:
<code>rasqal_query_get_graph_pattern_sequence</code> to get the
raptor_sequence of graph patterns in a query and
<code>rasqal_query_get_graph_pattern</code> to get individual an
graph pattern by index.</p>
<p>The new graph pattern methods added are:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>rasqal_graph_pattern_get_triple</code> to get a
<code>raptor_triple</code> inside a graph pattern.</li>
<li><code>rasqal_graph_pattern_get_sub_graph_pattern_sequence</code> to
get the raptor_sequence of sub-graph patterns.</li>
<li><code>rasqal_graph_pattern_get_sub_graph_pattern</code> to get
a sub-graph pattern inside a graph pattern by index.</li>
<li><code>rasqal_graph_pattern_get_flags</code> to get a graph
pattern's flags.</li>
<li><code>rasqal_graph_pattern_print</code> to print a graph
pattern in a debug form.</li>
</ul>
<p>Deprecated <code>rasqal_query_add_triple</code> as it doesn't
construct the graph patterns and is of little use as it does not
build the correct query structures.</p>
<p>Added query API methods to get the bound and all variables
in a query: <code>rasqal_query_get_bound_variable_sequence</code>
and <code>rasqal_query_get_all_variable_sequence</code> respectively.
Deprecated <code>rasqal_query_get_variable_sequence</code> as
too ambiguous.</p>
<p>With the aid of gcc <code>-Wswitch-enum</code>, found and fixed
cases where switch on enumerated values were missing cases. The
remaining cases return failure or an error message rather than
abort(). This fixed a crash when comparing for equality a variable
?x with a blank node value and an interger.</p>
<p>Deleted <code>RASQAL_EXPR_PATTERN</code> as it was never used.</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_query_get_distinct</code> to get a
query-specified distinct results flag.</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_query_get_limit</code> to get a query-specified
limit on the number of results.</p>
<h3>SPARQL Query Language Changes</h3>
<p>Updated some of the SPARQL syntax to match the changes in the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20050217/">SPARQL Query Language for RDF</a>
W3C Working Draft of 17 February 2005. Added <code>GRAPH</code>
replacing <code>SOURCE</code> and <code>WITH</code> replacing
<code>FROM</code>. Added warnings about using the older forms
and about using <code>[</code>...<code>]</code> instead of
<code>OPTIONAL</code>.
</p>
<p>Added recording of <code>DISTINCT</code> and <code>LIMIT</code>
in the query structures but not yet used by the query engine.</p>
<h3>RDQL Query Language Changes</h3>
<p>None.</p>
<h2 id="rel0_9_6"><a name="rel0_9_6">Rasqal 0.9.6 Changes</a></h2>
<h3>General Changes</h3>
<p>Fix a bug in writing a query result to XML when blank nodes are
used. Now also correctly uses the base URI when pass in to the
writing method.</p>
<p>Added support for three types of query result - bindings (the only
one in previous versions), an RDF graph and a boolean. Added
<code>rasqal_query_results</code> methods to test the type of the
result: <code>rasqal_query_results_is_bindings</code>,
<code>rasqal_query_results_is_boolean</code> and
<code>rasqal_query_results_is_graph</code>.</p>
<p>Added
<code>rasqal_query_results_get_triple</code>
to get current triple as a <code>raptor_statement</code>
and <code>rasqal_query_results_next_triple</code> to move to the next triple.
</p>
<p>Added
<code>rasqal_query_results_get_boolean</code>
to get a boolean query result value.
</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_triple</code> copy constructor
<code>rasqal_new_triple_from_triple</code>.
</p>
<h3>Query Engine Changes</h3>
<p>Constructs an RDF graph result as a sequence of triples. This
enables the SPARQL <code>CONSTRUCT</code> form to work.
</p>
<p>Can return a boolean result indicating that there were variable
binding results, but not returning them. This enables the SPARQL
<code>ASK</code> form to work.
</p>
<p>Added a new function expression - rasqal_op enum value
<code>RASQAL_EXPR_FUNCTION</code>, added new <code>name</code> and
<code>args</code> fields to the <code>rasqal_expression</code>
structure and added <code>rasqal_new_function_expression</code> to
construct this expression.
</p>
<p>Added new 1-argument expression <code>RASQAL_EXPR_STR</code>
returning a string version of the expression.</p>
<p>Added new 1-argument expressions operating on RDF literals:
<code>RASQAL_EXPR_LANG</code> returning the language string of an RDF literal,
<code>RASQAL_EXPR_DATATYPE</code> returning the datatype URI of an RDF literal.
</p>
<p>Added new 1-argument testing expressions returning booleans:
<code>RASQAL_EXPR_BOUND</code> true if the variable argument is bound to a value,
<code>RASQAL_EXPR_ISURI</code> true if the argument is a URI,
<code>RASQAL_EXPR_ISBLANK</code> true if the argument is a blank node and
<code>RASQAL_EXPR_ISLITERAL</code> true if the argument is an RDF literal.
</p>
<p>Fixed a problem in optional results returning extra results
with no new bindings.
</p>
<h3>SPARQL Query Language Changes</h3>
<p>The SPARQL Parser now allows UTF-8 and \u, \U in prefixes and
QNames.
</p>
<p>Now supports <code>CONSTRUCT</code> and <code>ASK</code>
queries using the updated query engine features.</p>
<p><code>OPTIONAL</code> can now be used wherever <code>[</code> ...
<code>]</code> could be used (parser bug fix).</p>
<p>Now supports the SPARQL built-in functions
<code>STR()</code> returning a string version of the expression,
<code>LANG()</code> returning the language string of an RDF literal,
<code>DATATYPE()</code> returning the datatype URI of an RDF literal,
<code>BOUND()</code> testing if a variable is bound,
<code>ISURI()</code> testing if an expression is a URI,
<code>ISBLANK()</code> testing if an expression is a blank node and
<code>ISLITERAL()</code> testing if an expression is an RDF literal.
</p>
<p>Now supports SPARQL <code>BASE</code> directive for setting the
base URI of a query. This is <em>experimental</em> and may not be in
the next version or may not be in the final SPARQL language.</p>
<p>The parser now expands QNames correctly when used in literals like
<code>"blah"^^xsd:string</code>.
</p>
<h3>RDQL Query Language Changes</h3>
<p>The RDQL Parser now allows UTF-8 and \u, \U in prefixes and
QNames. This makes RDQL testsuite tests S-03, S-04 and S-05 work.
</p>
<h2 id="rel0_9_5"><a name="rel0_9_5">Rasqal 0.9.5 Changes</a></h2>
<p>A release with major changes internal to the query engine to
operate over graph patterns instead of sequences of triple patterns
and to add execution of optional graph patterns. Additionally the
query results can now be written in a recognised XML format.</p>
<p>This version of Rasqal requires
<a href="http://librdf.org/raptor/">Raptor</a> 1.4.4.</p>
<h3>Core Changes</h3>
<p>Added a <code>rasqal_graph_pattern</code> class for handling
matching a graph pattern (set of triple patterns) in an
<code>rasqal_query</code>. RDQL only has one of these wheras SPARQL
may have many, and they may be nested (this may change, as SPARQL is
under development).</p>
<p>Added <code>rasqal_query_results_write</code> method to write
variable binding query results to a <code>raptor_iostream</code> in
the XML format defined by
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-rdf-sparql-XMLres-20041221/">SPARQL Variable Binding Results XML Format</a>, W3C Working Draft, 21 December 2004.
</p>
<h3>Query Engine Changes</h3>
<p>Updated the query engine to operate over graph patterns rather
than a single sequence of triple patterns. The graph patterns may be
optional, which is used to implement SPARQL optionals. Nested graph
patterns are constructed but cannot yet be executed.
</p>
<p>Added a unary minus expression type.</p>
<p>Improved the type promotion for expression evaluation. Try to
evaluate strings as doubles or integers if the operation contains one
double or integer respectively.</p>
<p>Fixed a memory leak with string matches/non-matches.</p>
<h3>SPARQL Query Language Changes</h3>
<p>Optional graph patterns <code>OPTIONAL</code> and
<code>[</code> ... <code>]</code> now work.</p>
<p>Added the <code>{</code> ... <code>}</code> group syntax and
removed the <code>(</code> ... <code>)</code> form.</p>
<p><code>$</code> was added as an allowed variable prefixes.</p>
<p>A warning was added to show <code>SOURCE *</code> is ignored.</p>
<p>Added the <code>UNION</code> keyword, unsupported.</p>
<p>Rasqal now passes the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/">DAWG</a>
SPARQL
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/tests/">test cases</a>:
Optional triples (dawg-opt-query-001, dawg-opt-query-002,
dawg-opt-query-003, dawg-opt-query-004)
and examples from query WD (sparql-query-example-2.1a,
sparql-query-example-2.2a, sparql-query-example-2.3a,
sparql-query-example-2.4a, sparql-query-example-3)
</p>
<p>Allow UTF-8 qname prefixes and check name against XML name
constraints.</p>
<p>Recover lexer state from errors in regexes.</p>
<p>Terminate the lexer on a syntax error, rather than produce
multiple errors.</p>
<h3>RDQL Query Language Changes</h3>
<p>The lexer now handles UTF-8 qname prefixes, enabling RDQL
testsuite test S-02 to pass.</p>
<p>Allow UTF-8 qname prefixes and check name against XML name
constraints.</p>
<p>Recover lexer state from errors in regexes.</p>
<p>Terminate the lexer on a syntax error, rather than produce
multiple errors.</p>
<h2 id="rel0_9_4"><a name="rel0_9_4">Rasqal 0.9.4 Changes</a></h2>
<p>Pass on raptor parser errors to rasqal's error routines and
upwards.</p>
<p>Clean up several memory allocations when a query fails to prepare
or execute fully.</p>
<p>Fixed lexer jams when a query contained an illegal
variable name after a '?'.</p>
<p>Fixed lexer crashes when a query ended in a regex pattern like
<code>/abc/</code>.</p>
<p>Tidied up the testing framework so 'make distcheck' works.</p>
<h2 id="rel0_9_3"><a name="rel0_9_3">Rasqal 0.9.3 Changes</a></h2>
<p>Rasqal's License was changed from LGPL 2.1/MPL 1.1 to
LGPL 2.1/Apache 2</p>
<p>Added support for the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-rdf-sparql-query-20041012/">
SPARQL Query Language for RDF</a>,
W3C Working Draft, 12 October 2004
from the W3C RDF Data Access Working Group (DAWG).
The support is at the basic syntax level - token lexer and grammar parser
which passes the first simple tests from the proposed
DAWG testcases. No additional query engine support has been added for SPARQL
features that are not supported by RDQL. The
<a href="http://librdf.org/rasqal/TODO.html#sparql">Rasqal to do list</a>
contains full details of the implementation state.
</p>
<p>Queries can now be prepared and then executed multiple times.</p>
<p>Added configure <code>--enable-query-languages</code> option with
<code>rdql</code> and <code>sparql</code> as the choices.</p>
<p>Thanks to Chris Pointon for several patches to make Rasqal easier
to build under Win32. Applied with some modifications. Renamed the
RDQL and SPARQL syntax tokens ERROR to ERROR_TOKEN to help.</p>
<p>Added experimental support for querying multiple sources; the same
query is executed over each source in turn. Also added some support
for returning the source URI which is not yet enabled as this feature
is in flux in the DAWG work. This may change or be removed in future
versions.</p>
<p><code>roqet</code> can specify a data source URI on the command
line with <code>-s</code> / <code>--source</code>) <em>URI</em> for
queries executing against an implicit model.</p>
<p>Added the
<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/tests/">DAWG SPARQL test cases</a>
driven from the manifest.n3 format. Created tests from the examples
in the working draft.</p>
<p>Added an experimental XML result format for bindings, based on
DAWG work. Enabled in <code>roqet</code> with <code>-o xml</code>.
This is very likely to change or replaced in future versions.</p>
<p>Added <code>roqet</code> argument <code>-d</code> /
<code>--dump-query</code> to dump the processed query, rather than
do it by default (0.9.2 and earlier).</p>
<p><code>roqet</code> can now read queries from URIs, using
the <code>raptor_www</code> class to do the retrieval.</p>
<p>Fixed the <code>configure</code> checks for a posix regex
function regcomp to correctly discover it is present.</p>
<h3>Internal changes</h3>
<p>Added support for declaring prefixes for XML-style QNames both
before and after their use.</p>
<p>The struct <code>rasqal_prefix</code> gained a
<code>declared</code> field.</p>
<p>The struct <code>rasqal_triple</code> gained an origin field; not
used at present but intended to support work on tracking triple
provenance such as provided by Redland Contexts.</p>
<p>Added methods <code>rasqal_triple_set_origin</code> and
<code>rasqal_triple_get_origin</code> to support the above.</p>
<p>struct <code>rasqal_triple_meta</code> now takes a 4-array of
bindings, the fourth being the origin.</p>
<p>Exported function <code>rasqal_set_triples_source_factory</code>
publically as originally intended.
</p>
<h2 id="rel0_9_2"><a name="rel0_9_2">Rasqal 0.9.2 Changes</a></h2>
<p>This release made minor portability fixes for building with
C++ and Win32 (untested).</p>
<p>Several functions changed their parameters or return values from
char* to unsigned char* or const unsigned char* to reflect the
actual use.</p>
<p>Changed to return a <code>const unsigned char*</code>:<br />
<code>rasqal_literal_as_string</code>
</p>
<p>Changed to take <code>const unsigned char*</code> (or add
<code>const</code>):<br />
<code>rasqal_new_floating_literal</code><br />
<code>rasqal_new_pattern_literal</code><br />
<code>rasqal_new_prefix</code><br />
<code>rasqal_new_simple_literal</code><br />
<code>rasqal_new_string_literal</code><br />
<code>rasqal_new_variable</code><br />
<code>rasqal_query_has_variable</code><br />
<code>rasqal_query_results_get_binding_name</code><br />
<code>rasqal_query_results_get_binding_value_by_name</code><br />
<code>rasqal_query_results_get_bindings</code><br />
<code>rasqal_query_set_variable</code><br />
</p>
<h2 id="rel0_9_1"><a name="rel0_9_1">Rasqal 0.9.1 Changes</a></h2>
<p>This release changed the way that results were returned. A new
<code>rasqal_query_results</code> class was created. This allows for
a clean separation of the two concepts allowing multiple form of the
results to be retrieved as methods of the query_results class, rather
than the query class. The only form of results currently available
is variable bindings, but RDF graphs will be returned in future,
as a set of triples in a serialised form.</p>
<p>The execution method <code>rasqal_query_execute</code> was changed
to return a new object of that class rather than an <code>int</code>
success or failure.</p>
<p>The following methods of the <code>rasqal_query</code> class
were renamed and moved to the new <code>rasqal_query_results</code>
class:</p>
<table>
<tr>
<th>0.9.0 name</th> <th>0.9.1+ name</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>rasqal_query_get_result_count</code></td> <td><code>rasqal_query_results_get_count</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>rasqal_query_next_result</code></td> <td><code>rasqal_query_results_next</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>rasqal_query_results_finished</code></td> <td><code>rasqal_query_results_finished</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>rasqal_query_get_result_bindings</code></td> <td><code>rasqal_query_results_get_bindings</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>rasqal_query_get_result_binding_value</code></td> <td><code>rasqal_query_results_get_binding_value</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>rasqal_query_get_result_binding_name</code></td> <td><code>rasqal_query_results_get_binding_name</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>rasqal_query_get_result_binding_by_name</code></td> <td><code>rasqal_query_results_get_binding_value_by_name</code></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><code>rasqal_query_get_bindings_count</code></td> <td><code>rasqal_query_results_get_bindings_count</code></td>
</tr>
</table>
<p>A new <code>rasqal_free_query_results</code> destructor was created
to delete the query results. (There is no public constructor).</p>
<p>Other minor bugs were fixed such as multiple constraints now being
ANDed and not ORed, and adding defensive code for when queries fail
and results methods are invoked.</p>
<h2 id="rel0_9_0"><a name="rel0_9_0">Rasqal 0.9.0 Changes</a></h2>
<p>
It is all new.
</p>
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