[protege-discussion] SlotWidget

[Jonathan Carter]

Hi,

I think what you're trying to achieve is to have slots that can  
contain multiple instances of any Cls in your ontology. I think the  
best thing to do would be to modify your ontology in Protege so that  
the slots that are to hold these Collections (Instance slot with  
multiple cardinality) are setup such that they are Instance slots and  
set the 'allowed classes' to be something at the top of your  
heterogeneous class hierachy. For example, I have a class that is the  
base class for all my classes in my ontology. I would then set the  
slot to such that it allowed Instances of "MyBaseClass". Then to see  
the collections in your model, it's simply a case of using a Multiple  
Instance widget in the form and everything will display properly.

I think this is at the root of your problem - that you are trying to  
display Instances in a slot set up for values.

Hope this helps - please let me know if this isn't clear

Regards

Jonathan

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On 31 Jul 2008, at 21:57, florencia liggerini wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I am developing a plugin to import an ontology from a object  
> oriented database to a Protégé Frame project.
> I want to know if  it is any slotWidget to display a multiple value  
> slot with ValueType= ANY. I map every java Class in the database to  
> a Cls in Protégé, every Field to a Slot, etc. The problem come up  
> when I have  a field that is a Collection with heterogeneous  
> objects, I map these kinds of collections to a multiplevalue slot  
> with ValueType=Any. When I run my application I obtain these warnings
> WARNING: Invalid widget class name: null -- 
> DefaultWidgetMapper.isSuitable()
> WARNING: null -- PluginUtilities.forName()
> I can see that the slot values are saved ok but they don't appear on  
> the InstanceTab. I have tried to change the SlotWidget for that slot  
> using the formTab of the Protégé UI but there isn't any SlotWidget  
> for that slot available
>
>
> Thanks,
> Florencia
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