The Data Food Consortium (DFC) Connector is a tool to help you to integrate the DFC standard within you application.
Each concept of the DFC ontology can be manipulated with the help of the corresponding class supplied by the connector.
This connector will also help you to import and export data so you can exchange information with other DFC standard compliant platforms.
The Data Food Consortium project (DFC) aims to provide interoperability between food supply chain platforms.
The API reference is available here.
You can install the connector with composer:
composer require datafoodconsortium/connector
You can then load our different SKOS taxonomies providing the corresponding JSON-LD files:
$connector->import("/path/to/measures.json");
$connector->import("/path/to/facets.json");
$connector->import("/path/to/productTypes.json");
$connector->import("/path/to/vocabulary.json");
These taxonomies are accessible directly from the connector, like:
// Example of a facet
$fruit = $connector->fetch("dfc-f:Fruit");
// Example of an measure
$kilogram = $connector->fetch("dfc-m:Kilogram");
// Example of a product type
$tomato = $connector->fetch("dfc-pt:RoundTomato");
You can create objects by calling the new operator.
Remark: each newly created object will be saved into the store provided to the Connector. This store will allow you to access to the referenced objects more easily. You can disable this behavior passing the doNotStore: true
parameter when constructing the objects.
Remark: Except for anonymous objects (blank nodes), the semanticId
constructor parameter is mandatory. All the other parameters are optional.
$quantity = new QuantitativeValue(
connector: $connector, // You have to pass a reference to the connector.
value: 1.2,
unit: $kilogram
);
$allergenCharacteristic = new AllergenCharacteristic(
connector: $connector, // You have to pass a reference to the connector.
value: 1,
unit: $kilogram,
allergenDimension: $connector->fetch("dfc-m:Peanuts");
);
$nutrientCharacteristic = new NutrientCharacteristic(
connector: $connector, // You have to pass a reference to the connector.
value: 10,
unit: $gram,
nutrientDimension: $connector->fetch("dfc-m:Calcium")
);
$physicalCharacteristic = new PhysicalCharacteristic({
connector: $connector, // You have to pass a reference to the connector.
value: 100,
unit: $gram,
physicalDimension: $connector->fetch("dfc-m:Weight")
});
$catalogItem = new CatalogItem({
connector: $connector, // You have to pass a reference to the connector.
semanticId: "http://myplatform.com/catalogItem"
});
$suppliedProduct = new SuppliedProduct({
connector: onnector, // You have to pass a reference to the connector.
semanticId: "http://myplatform.com/tomato",
description: "Awesome tomato",
productType: $connector->fetch("dfc-pt:RoundTomato"),
quantity: $quantity,
totalTheoreticalStock: 2.23,
alcoholPercentage: 0,
lifetime: "a week",
claims: [$connector->fetch("dfc-f:NoAddedSugar")],
usageOrStorageConditions: "free text",
allergenCharacteristics: [$allergenCharacteristic],
nutrientCharacteristics: [$nutrientCharacteristic],
physicalCharacteristics: [$physicalCharacteristic],
geographicalOrigin: $connector->fetch("dfc-f:CentreValLoire"),
catalogItems: [$catalogItem],
certifications: [$connector->fetch("dfc-f:OrganicAB"), $connector->fetch("dfc-f:OrganicEU")],
natureOrigin: [$connector->fetch("dfc-f:PlantOrigin")],
partOrigin: [$connector->fetch("dfc-f:Fruit")]
});
Available concreate classes:
Address
AllergenCharacteristic
Catalog
CatalogItem
CustomerCategory
Enterprise
NutrientCharacteristic
Offer
Order
OrderLine
Person
PhysicalCharacteristic
PlannedConsumptionFlow
PlannedProductionFlow
PlannedTransformation
Price
QuantitativeValue
Quantity
SaleSession
SKOSConcept
SuppliedProduct
TechnicalProduct
You can read the properties of an object using getter methods.
$suppliedProduct->getDescription();
The previous method returned a simple string. But an object ofen contains other objects. In the semantic web, every object has its own URI (it is stored at an other location on the network). So we will store only a reference to these contained objects using their URI. They are called "referenced objects".
To access a referenced object using the connector there is nothing special to do:
$addresses = $person->getLocalizations();
Remark: Running the previous code sample will trigger a call to the fetch
function of the connector. If the referenced object it is not already in the connector store, it will be downloaded from the network.
If you want to change a property after the creation of the object, you can use its proper setter method like:
// Set the quantity of the product
$suppliedProduct->setQuantity(new QuantitiveValue(connector: $connector, unit: $kilogram, value: 2.6));
You can also add a value to properties that are array:
// Add a new certification to the product
$suppliedProduct->addCertification($connector->fetch("dfc-f:AocFR"));
With the Connector, you can export DFC object(s). The default exporter exports objects to JSON-LD:
$connector->export([$suppliedProduct]));
This will output DFC compliant valid JSON-LD like:
{
"@context": "http://static.datafoodconsortium.org/ontologies/context.json",
"@graph": [
{
"@id": "_:b1",
"@type": "dfc-b:QuantitativeValue",
"dfc-b:hasUnit": "dfc-m:Kilogram",
"dfc-b:value": "1.2"
},
{
"@id": "_:b2",
"@type": "dfc-b:AllergenCharacteristic",
"dfc-b:hasAllergenDimension": "dfc-m:Peanuts",
"dfc-b:hasUnit": "dfc-m:Kilogram",
"dfc-b:value": "1"
},
{
"@id": "_:b4",
"@type": "dfc-b:NutrientCharacteristic",
"dfc-b:hasNutrientDimension": {
"@id": "dfc-m:Calcium"
},
"dfc-b:hasUnit": "dfc-m:Gram",
"dfc-b:value": "10"
},
{
"@id": "_:b6",
"@type": "dfc-b:PhysicalCharacteristic",
"dfc-b:hasPhysicalDimension": "dfc-m:Weight",
"dfc-b:hasUnit": "dfc-m:Gram",
"dfc-b:value": "100"
},
{
"@id": "http://myplatform.com/tomato",
"@type": "dfc-b:SuppliedProduct",
"dfc-b:alcoholPercentage": "0",
"dfc-b:description": "Awesome tomato",
"dfc-b:hasAllergenCharacteristic": {
"@id": "_:b2"
},
"dfc-b:hasCertification": [
{
"@id": "dfc-f:Organic-AB"
},
{
"@id": "dfc-f:Organic-EU"
}
],
"dfc-b:hasClaim": "dfc-f:NoAddedSugars",
"dfc-b:hasGeographicalOrigin": "dfc-f:CentreValLoire",
"dfc-b:hasNatureOrigin": {
"@id": "dfc-f:PlantOrigin"
},
"dfc-b:hasNutrientCharacteristic": {
"@id": "_:b4"
},
"dfc-b:hasPartOrigin": {
"@id": "dfc-f:Fruit"
},
"dfc-b:hasPhysicalCharacteristic": {
"@id": "_:b6"
},
"dfc-b:hasQuantity": "_:b1",
"dfc-b:hasType": "dfc-pt:round-tomato",
"dfc-b:lifetime": "a week",
"dfc-b:referencedBy": "http://myplatform.com/catalogItem",
"dfc-b:totalTheoreticalStock": "2.23",
"dfc-b:usageOrStorageCondition": "free text"
}
]
}
The DFC Connector provides method to import data. The default importer imports JSON-LD data.
To import objects from JSON-LD, use:
$objects = $connector->import($jsonAsAString));
The default fetch function looks like:
function getDefaultfetchFunction(string $semanticObjectId): string {
$opts = array('http' => array('method' => "GET", 'header' => "Accept: application/ld+json"));
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
return file_get_contents($semanticObjectId, false, $context);
}
You can pass a custom function via the Connector::setFetchFunction
method.
You can adapt different components of the connector to your needs with the following connector methods:
// Set the function that will fetch the referenced objects when importing data.
Connector::setFetchFunction(\Closure $fetch);
// Set the object used to create new instances.
Connector::setFactory(IFactory $factory);
See the Semantizer documentation for more details.
$connector = new Connector();
$connector->import("./test/thesaurus/measures.json");
$connector->import("./test/thesaurus/vocabulary.json");
$quantity = new Quantity(
connector: $connector,
unit: $connector->fetch("dfc-m:Kilogram"),
value: 1.0
);
$consumptionFlow = new PlannedConsumptionFlow(
connector: $connector,
semanticId: "http://example.org/consumptionFlow",
quantity: $quantity
);
$productionFlow = new PlannedProductionFlow(
connector: $connector,
semanticId: "http://example.org/productionFlow",
quantity: $quantity
);
$transformation = new PlannedTransformation(
connector: $connector,
semanticId: "http://example.org/transformation",
consumptionFlow: $consumptionFlow,
productionFlow: $productionFlow,
transformationType: $connector->fetch("dfc-v:combine")
);
echo $connector->export([$transformation, $consumptionFlow, $productionFlow]);