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    Nepomuk Quickstart
    Tutorial Series   Nepomuk
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    This page serves as a very simple overview to Nepomuk. It does not deal with Nepomuk internals and focuses on how you can start using Nepomuk in the fastest possible manner. Please keep in the mind that the processes described here are targeted to the general use case. If you have a more specialized use case in mind, this might not be the best way to use the Nepomuk libraries.

    Basic Terminology

    Nepomuk is centred around a main 'Resource' class. For simple, non-high performance access to Nepomuk, it is recommended that you use the Resource class.

    Everything in Nepomuk is a Resource. Each Resource has a number of properties associated with it, which are stored as (key, value) pairs. They keys are referred to as properties or predicates, and the values are referred to as the objects.

    Every file, folder, contact or tag is a Resource.

    Dealing with Tags

    Every tag in Nepomuk is a Resource. In fact the Tag class is also derived from the Resource class.

    Setting Tags

    Nepomuk2::Tag tag( "Awesome-Tag-Name" );
    Nepomuk2::Resource res( url );
    res.addTag( tag );
    


    The 'Nepomuk2::Tag' class will automatically look for for a tag called "Awesome-Tag-Name", it is finds it then Tag::exists() will return true. Otherwise, the tag will be saved the first time the tag is used. In our case, when we add the tag to the Resource via Resource::addTag(), the tag will be saved.

    Retrieving Tags

    using namespace Nepomuk2;
    
    Resource res( url );
    QList<Tag> tags = res.tags();
    foreach(const Tag& tag, tags)
        kDebug() << tag.genericLabel();
    


    Every resource has a predefined function for retrieving all the Tags any resource is tagged with - Resource::tags(). The Resource::genericLabel() function tries to find a presentable name for any resource. In the case of tags, it returns the tags name.

    Listing all the Tags

    The simplest way to list all the tags that are present in Nepomuk is via a static function - Tag::allTags(). You, however, need to be careful using this in a production environment as it executes a blocking query in the background. Depending on the number of tags on the system, it could take some time.

    using namespace Nepomuk2;
    
    QList<Tag> tags = Tag::allTags();
    foreach(const Tag& tag, tags)
        kDebug() << tag.genericLabel();
    


    Dealing with files

    Every file in Nepomuk is represented as a resource. Since dealing with files is very common, we provide a special File class which is derived from the Resource class. We also provide convenience functions for checking if a resource is a file.

    using namespace Nepomuk2;
    
    File fileRes( urlOfTheFile );
    kDebug() << fileRes.url();
    
    Resource res( urlOfTheFile );
    if( res.isFile() )
        kDebug() << res.toFile().url();
    


    Internally Nepomuk Files are not very different from other Resources.

    Ratings

    Every resource in Nepomuk can be given a numeric rating. It is generally done on a scale of 0-10.

    using namespace Nepomuk2;
    
    File fileRes( urlOfTheFile );
    int rating = fileRes.rating();
    
    rating = rating + 1;
    fileRes.setRating( rating );
    


    Includes and Linking

    Headers

    For the example you need the following includes:

    #include <Nepomuk2/Tag>
    #include <Nepomuk2/Resource>
    #include <Nepomuk2/File>
    #include <KDebug>
    

    CMake

    In your CMakeLists.txt, you need the find macro for Nepomuk and link to it of course ;)

    find_package(NepomukCore REQUIRED)
    target_link_libraries(myfile ${NEPOMUK_CORE_LIBRARY} )