Redundant RDF datatype classes? #20
Description
In the lib/rdf/rdf_datatype/ directory there are the following classes defined:
| «abstract» RdfDatatype |
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| getUri() unparse() parse() |
| BaseDatatype (extends RdfDatatype) |
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| getUri() unparse(value) parse(str) toString() |
| RdfDatatypeBase (extends RdfDatatype) |
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| getUri() |
| RdfDatatypeLabel (extends RdfDatatypeBase) |
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| parse(str) unparse(val) |
For me it seems like either RdfDatatypeBase and RdfDatatypeLabel or BaseDatatype is needed. Is there a reason for having all of them?
Moreover I'm wondering if we really need this class hierachy here, since it (IMHO) only complicates things unnecessarily.