com.thinkaurelius.titan.core.schema

Interface RelationTypeMaker

All Known Subinterfaces:

EdgeLabelMaker, PropertyKeyMaker

All Known Implementing Classes:

StandardEdgeLabelMaker, StandardPropertyKeyMaker, StandardRelationTypeMaker

public interface RelationTypeMaker

RelationTypeMaker is a factory for RelationTypes. RelationType can be configured to provide data verification, better storage efficiency, and higher performance. The RelationType defines the schema for all TitanRelations of that type.

There are two kinds of RelationTypes: EdgeLabel and PropertyKey which are defined via their builders EdgeLabelMaker and PropertyKeyMaker respectively. This interface just defines builder methods common to both of them.

Author:

Matthias Bröcheler (http://www.matthiasb.com)

See Also:

RelationType

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
String	getName() Returns the name of this configured relation type.
RelationType	make() Builds the configured relation type
RelationTypeMaker	signature(PropertyKey... keys) Configures the signature of this relation type.

Method Detail

getName

String getName()

Returns the name of this configured relation type.

Returns:

signature

RelationTypeMaker signature(PropertyKey... keys)

Configures the signature of this relation type.

Specifying the signature of a type tells the graph database to expect that relations of this type always have or are likely to have an incident property or unidirected edge of the type included in the signature. This allows the graph database to store such relations more compactly and retrieve them more quickly.
For instance, if all edges with label friend have a property with key createdOn, then specifying (createdOn) as the signature for label friend allows friend edges to be stored more efficiently.
RelationTypes used in the signature must be either property out-unique keys or out-unique unidirected edge labels.
The signature is empty by default.

Parameters:

keys - PropertyKey composing the signature for the configured relation type. The order is irrelevant.

Returns:

this RelationTypeMaker

make

RelationType make()

Builds the configured relation type

Returns:

the configured RelationType