Fix SPARQL queries failing on Virtuoso endpoints - #171
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- Use FILTER(!isBlank(...)) instead of FILTER(isIri(...)) on incoming-link patterns, where a literal subject is not possible; isIri() there makes Virtuoso choose a catastrophic query plan scanning the whole graph. - Rewrite the OwlRdfsSettings link type statistics query as a UNION with an outer sum() instead of joining two aggregate sub-queries, which the Virtuoso cost estimator rejects; drop the LIMIT that applied to a single-row aggregate result and so never limited anything. - Treat unbound link counts as 0: some endpoints return the aggregate variable unbound when it counts an empty solution group. - Add a connectedLinkStats() unit test covering the statistics query. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
filterTypePattern ended without a terminating dot, so a type filter followed by the text search pattern produced two adjacent triple patterns and a syntax error. Virtuoso also rejects ORDER BY on a variable bound to a literal constant, so ?score is now bound through an expression. Adds a test for a lookup by type and text. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
SparqlDataProvider errors now carry the HTTP status and the start of the response body. The instances panel renders the message under the progress bar. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Fix SPARQL queries failing on Virtuoso endpoints
Summary
Three queries generated by
SparqlDataProviderfail against Virtuoso (tested onversion 08.03.3332): two hang until the server's timeout, one is rejected outright by the
cost estimator. Each fix keeps the query semantics identical for standard SPARQL
1.1 endpoints, so behaviour elsewhere does not change. Verified against a
Virtuoso endpoint holding an 11M-triple graph and against Comunica via a new
unit test.
Symptoms
On a Virtuoso endpoint, with
OwlStatsSettings:on an 11M-triple graph the affected queries take >20s instead of ~0.1s.
Causes and fixes
1.
FILTER(isIri(...))on incoming-link patterns (sparqlDataProvider.ts)createRefQueryPartemittedFILTER(isIri(?inst))on both branches of theconnected-elements union, and
connectedLinkStatsemittedFILTER IsIri(?inObject)for the statistics query's incoming branch. On anincoming pattern (
?inst ?link <element>) that filter makes Virtuoso abandonthe object-anchored index and scan the graph:
{ ?inst ?link <e> FILTER(isIri(?inst)) }in union{ ?inst ?link <e> FILTER(!isBlank(?inst)) }in unionIn the subject position a standard SPARQL 1.1 term cannot be a literal, so
!isBlankaccepts the same solutions asisIrithere. Outgoing patterns keepisIri(their object can be a literal, and the subject-anchored plan is notaffected). Known trade-off: on an RDF-star endpoint a quoted-triple subject now
passes the filter where
isIriexcluded it, andmapSparqlResponseIntoRdfJsthrows on
"type": "triple"bindings; there is no SPARQL 1.1-portable filterthat excludes quoted triples without also breaking on non-star endpoints
(
isTRIPLEis SPARQL-star syntax). If RDF-star tolerance is wanted, skippingunmappable term types in the response mapper would be a follow-up.
2. Joined aggregate subqueries in
linkTypesStatisticsQuery(sparqlDataProviderSettings.ts)The per-link-type count query in
OwlRdfsSettingsjoined two aggregatesubqueries. Virtuoso's cost estimator rejects that shape with HTTP 400:
Rewritten as a
UNIONof two row subqueries with an outersum(), which theestimator accepts (an aggregation over ~47k rows answers in 0.12s). Counts
stay exact; the previous
LIMIT 101is dropped because it applied to asingle-row aggregate result and so never limited anything. Constants in the
projection of an aggregate query are permitted by SPARQL 1.1 (§18.2.4.1). The
helper variables are named
?__out/?__into avoid capturing variables fromuser-authored
LinkConfiguration.pathpatterns, which are substituted verbatiminto the subqueries.
3. Unbound counts crash
getLinkStatistics(responseHandler.ts,sparqlModels.ts)When a counted pattern matches nothing, Virtuoso returns the aggregate variable
unbound rather than
0, andparseCountcrashed reading.valueofundefined.parseCountnow treats a missing binding as 0, the default querywraps the sums in
COALESCE(..., 0), andLinkCountBindingdeclaresinCount/outCountoptional so consumers cannot type-check past the case.Testing
connectedLinkStats()with exact counts over the org ontologyfixture, which runs the rewritten statistics query through Comunica.
npm run lint,npm run typecheck, and the library +examples build pass.
graph: the connections dialog lists all link types with counts,
connected-element search returns, links render between placed elements.
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