RDF-Sesame version 0.17 ======================== DESCRIPTION A Perl module to interact with the Sesame RDF server (http://openrdf.org). For more complete documentation, please see the module's POD. TESTING The tests are designed to interact with a working Sesame server. If you don't set the environment variables listed below, the tests should still pass, but will have skipped a great deal, therefore, you wouldn't know if your installation actually works. The tests will DESTROY ANY DATA in the repository you provide. It is recommended that you specifically create a repository to use with the tests or use the default mem-rdf-db repository that comes with a default Sesame installation. The repository must have inferencing DISABLED. RDF::Sesame works correctly when repositories have inferencing enabled, but the tests are written on the assumption that Sesame will not add extra triples to the store. If you've made it through all that, here are the secret code words you need to get the tests working. You must set the following environment variables: SESAME_URI=http://:@:/ SESAME_REPO= In the above settings, the items in <> are patterns for which you should substitute. user : the name of a user with permission to read and write password : the password of the user server : the hostname or IP address of the Sesame server port : the port on which Sesame is listening directory : this is almost always 'sesame' repository: the Sesame repository to run tests against. If you're using the default, in-memory repository, this would be 'mem-rdf-db' KNOWN ISSUES There is a problem with the implementation of Native repositories in Sesame 1.2.0. The RDF::Sesame tests will fail on a native repository under that Sesame version. The bug is fixed in Sesame 1.2.1 INSTALLATION Installation uses Module::Build. The mantra for installation is as follows. perl Build.PL ./Build ./Build test ./Build install DEPENDENCIES Carp - standard module Data::Table LWP::UserAgent Test::More - version 0.31 or higher URI XML::Simple COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE Copyright (C) 2005-2006 by Michael Hendricks This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.4 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.