Running basic RDFox scripts

The simplest way to use rdfox_runner goes like this:

• Set up a temporary directory with the required input files, scripts, rules etc.

• Run RDFox sandbox in that directory

• RDFox produces some output files

• The contents of the output files is captured and returned

For example, if we have some RDF triples in facts.ttl, and a query to answer in query.rq, we can get the answer to the query like this:

input_files {
    "facts.ttl": "path/to/facts.ttl",
    "query.rq": "path/to/query.rq",
}
script = [
    'dstore create default type par-complex-nn',
    'import facts.ttl',
    'set query.answer-format "text/csv"',
    'set output "output.csv"',
    'answer query.rq',
]
with RDFoxRunner(input_files, script) as rdfox:
    result = rdfox.files("output.csv").read_text()

Alternatively, you can start RDFox running and then interact with its REST API; see Running RDFox and interacting with the endpoint.