Re: JSON-LD & nested structure

Hi Aymeric, you probably want to specify a JSON-LD Frame to the serializer to get the shape you want. You may need to manually get rid of a top-level @graph, but that would allow you to specify the shape of the result. 

Gregg Kellogg

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> On Jul 28, 2016, at 1:39 PM, Aymeric Brisse <aymeric.brisse@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am currently working on a API that would return some JSON-LD and face some problematic. I would like to know, when transforming a graph to JSON-LD, how to be able to avoid the @graph object generation and having a nested hash instead (I assume that I have a root element).
> 
> The idea is to have a structure more traditional for the developers that want to parse it as a simple JSON object.
> 
> Let's say I have to following graph (rdf/xml for readability):
> 
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>
> <rdf:RDF xmlns:ns0='http://www.myresource.com/ontology/1.0#' xmlns:rdf='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#' xmlns:rdfs='http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#'>
>   <rdf:Description rdf:about='http://www.myresource/uuid'>
>     <ns0:talksAbout>
>       <rdf:Description rdf:about='http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/m.018w8'>
>         <rdfs:label xml:lang='en'>Basketball</rdfs:label>
>       </rdf:Description>
>     </ns0:talksAbout>
>   </rdf:Description>
> </rdf:RDF>
> 
> Basically when I use a standard serializer like the jsonld gem in Ruby to serialize it in JSON-LD I obtain (reproducible on http://rdf.greggkellogg.net/distiller)
> 
> {
>   "@context": {
>     "rdfs": "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
>   },
>   "@graph": [
>     {
>       "@id": "http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/m.018w8",
>       "rdfs:label": [
>         {
>           "@value": "Basketball",
>           "@language": "en"
>         }
>       ]
>     },
>     {
>       "@id": "http://www.myresource/uuid",
>       "http://www.myresource.com/ontology/1.0#talksAbout": [
>         {
>           "@id": "http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/m.018w8"
>         }
>       ]
>     }
>   ]
> }
> 
> But I would like to obtain:
> 
> {
>   "@context": {
>     "rdfs": "http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"
>   },
>   "@id": "http://www.myresource/uuid",
>   "http://www.myresource.com/ontology/1.0#talksAbout": [
>       {
>          "@id": "http://rdf.freebase.com/ns/m.018w8",
>          "rdfs:label": [
>            {
>              "@value": "Basketball",
>              "@language": "en"
>            }
>          ]
>      }
>   ]
> }
> 
> Is there any option or way to do it?
> 
> Thanks!