Enabling the KGCL commands in ROBOT

ROBOT >= 1.9.5 has built-in support for pluggable commands. To enable the commands provided by this project in ROBOT, place the kgcl-robot-plugin-X.Y.Z.jar file in a directory where ROBOT searches for plugins:

• the ~/.robot/plugins directory in your home directory;
• the directory specified by the ROBOT_PLUGINS_DIRECTORY environment variable;
• the directory specified by the robot.pluginsdir Java system property.

It is recommended to rename the archive file to a simple, mono-word name, such as kgcl.jar. The commands provided by the plugins will then be available from the command line under the name kgcl:COMMAND_NAME, such as kgcl:apply.

If for some reasons the use of a plugin is not possible or not wanted, building KGCL-Java with the standard Maven goal package will also produce a Jar file named kgcl-robot-standalone-X.Y.Z.jar. That file will contain a full distribution of the latest version of ROBOT (1.9.5) in which the commands below will be available as built-in comands (in addition to all the standard commands).

Note that in the standalone version, the commands are prefixed with a kgcl- prefix for clarity (e.g. kgcl-apply).

Available commands

Currently, this project provides two commands:

• apply to inject KGCL-specified changes into an ontology;
• mint to replace temporary identifiers in an ontology by newly minted permanent identifiers.