RepositoryFactory (Eclipse RDF4J 4.2.4)

All Known Implementing Classes:

ContextAwareFactory, DatasetRepositoryFactory, FedXRepositoryFactory, HTTPRepositoryFactory, ProxyRepositoryFactory, SailRepositoryFactory, SPARQLRepositoryFactory
```
public interface RepositoryFactory
```
A RepositoryFactory takes care of creating and initializing a specific type of Repositorys based on RDF configuration data.

Author:

Arjohn Kampman

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`RepositoryImplConfig`	`getConfig()`
`Repository`	`getRepository(RepositoryImplConfig config)`	Returns a Repository instance that has been initialized using the supplied configuration data.
`String`	`getRepositoryType()`	Returns the type of the repositories that this factory creates.

- Method Detail
  - getRepositoryType
```
String getRepositoryType()
```
    Returns the type of the repositories that this factory creates. Repository types are used for identification and should uniquely identify specific implementations of the Repository API. This type can be equal to the fully qualified class name of the repository, but this is not required.
  - getConfig
```
RepositoryImplConfig getConfig()
```
  - getRepository
```
Repository getRepository(RepositoryImplConfig config)
                  throws RepositoryConfigException
```
    Returns a Repository instance that has been initialized using the supplied configuration data.
    
    Parameters:
    
    config - TODO
    
    Returns:
    
    The created (but un-initialized) repository.
    
    Throws:
    
    RepositoryConfigException - If no repository could be created due to invalid or incomplete configuration data.