<?php

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 *
 */

namespace oat\generis\model\data;

/**
 * transitory class to manage the ontology driver
 * instead of managing full models, it only handles the rdfs interfaces
 *
 * @author Joel Bout <joel@taotesting.com>
 */
interface Model
{
    
    /**
     * Creates a model from a configuration array provided by getConfig()
     *
     * @param array $config
     */
    function __construct($options = []);
    
    /**
     * Returns a configuration array that can be used to instanciate the model
     * should only contain scalars as values
     *
     * @return array
     */
    function getOptions();

    /**
     * Experimental interface to access the data of the model
     * Will throw an exception on all current implementations
     *
     * @return RdfInterface
     */
    function getRdfInterface();
    
    /**
     * Expected interface to access the data of the model
     *
     * @return RdfsInterface
     */
    function getRdfsInterface();
    
    /**
     * Get search interface for model
     */
    public function getSearchInterface();
}