diff --git a/dhp-schemas/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/schema/common/RelationInverse.java b/dhp-schemas/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/schema/common/RelationInverse.java
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index 0000000000..b726a8c16d
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+++ b/dhp-schemas/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/schema/common/RelationInverse.java
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+package eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.common;
+
+public class RelationInverse {
+}
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-blacklist/pom.xml b/dhp-workflows/dhp-blacklist/pom.xml
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+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-blacklist/pom.xml
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+
+
+
+ dhp-workflows
+ eu.dnetlib.dhp
+ 1.1.7-SNAPSHOT
+
+ 4.0.0
+
+ dhp-blacklist
+
+
+
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diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-blacklist/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/blacklist/ReadBlacklistFromDB.java b/dhp-workflows/dhp-blacklist/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/blacklist/ReadBlacklistFromDB.java
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+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-blacklist/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/blacklist/ReadBlacklistFromDB.java
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+package eu.dnetlib.dhp.blacklist;
+
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.application.ArgumentApplicationParser;
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.oa.graph.raw.common.DbClient;
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.common.ModelSupport;
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.common.RelationInverse;
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.oaf.Relation;
+import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+
+import java.io.BufferedWriter;
+import java.io.Closeable;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.sql.ResultSet;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.function.Consumer;
+import java.util.function.Function;
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+
+
+public class ReadBlacklistFromDB implements Closeable {
+
+ private final DbClient dbClient;
+ private static final Log log = LogFactory.getLog(ReadBlacklistFromDB.class);
+ private final Configuration conf;
+ private final BufferedWriter writer;
+
+ private final static String query = "SELECT source_type, unnest(original_source_objects) as source, " +
+ "target_type, unnest(original_target_objects) as target, " +
+ "relationship FROM blacklist WHERE status = 'ACCEPTED'";
+
+ public static void main(final String[] args) throws Exception {
+ final ArgumentApplicationParser parser =
+ new ArgumentApplicationParser(
+ IOUtils.toString(
+ ReadBlacklistFromDB.class.getResourceAsStream(
+ "/eu/dnetlib/dhp/blacklist/blacklist_parameters.json")));
+
+ parser.parseArgument(args);
+
+ final String dbUrl = parser.get("postgresUrl");
+ final String dbUser = parser.get("postgresUser");
+ final String dbPassword = parser.get("postgresPassword");
+ final String hdfsPath = parser.get("hdfsPath");
+ final String hdfsNameNode = parser.get("hdfsNameNode");
+
+
+
+ try (final ReadBlacklistFromDB rbl =
+ new ReadBlacklistFromDB(hdfsPath, hdfsNameNode, dbUrl, dbUser, dbPassword)) {
+
+ log.info("Processing blacklist...");
+ rbl.execute(query, rbl::processBlacklistEntry);
+
+ }
+ }
+
+
+ public void execute(final String sql, final Function> producer)
+ throws Exception {
+
+ final Consumer consumer = rs -> producer.apply(rs).forEach(r -> writeRelation(r));
+
+ dbClient.processResults(sql, consumer);
+ }
+
+ public List processBlacklistEntry(ResultSet rs){
+ try {
+ Relation direct = new Relation();
+ Relation inverse = new Relation();
+
+ String source_prefix = ModelSupport.entityIdPrefix.get(rs.getString("source_type"));
+ String target_prefix = ModelSupport.entityIdPrefix.get(rs.getString("target_type"));
+
+ String source_direct = source_prefix + "|" + rs.getString("source");
+ direct.setSource(source_direct);
+ inverse.setTarget(source_direct);
+
+ String target_direct = target_prefix + "|" + rs.getString("target");
+ direct.setTarget(target_direct);
+ inverse.setSource(target_direct);
+
+ String encoding = rs.getString("relationship");
+ RelationInverse ri = ModelSupport.relationInverseMap.get(encoding);
+ direct.setRelClass(ri.getRelation());
+ inverse.setRelClass(ri.getInverse());
+ direct.setRelType(ri.getRelType());
+ inverse.setRelType(ri.getRelType());
+ direct.setSubRelType(ri.getSubReltype());
+ inverse.setSubRelType(ri.getSubReltype());
+
+ return Arrays.asList(direct, inverse);
+
+ } catch (final Exception e) {
+ throw new RuntimeException(e);
+ }
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void close() throws IOException {
+ dbClient.close();
+ writer.close();
+ }
+
+ public ReadBlacklistFromDB(
+ final String hdfsPath, String hdfsNameNode, final String dbUrl, final String dbUser, final String dbPassword)
+ throws Exception {
+
+ this.dbClient = new DbClient(dbUrl, dbUser, dbPassword);
+ this.conf = new Configuration();
+ this.conf.set("fs.defaultFS", hdfsNameNode);
+ FileSystem fileSystem = FileSystem.get(this.conf);
+ Path hdfsWritePath = new Path(hdfsPath);
+ FSDataOutputStream fsDataOutputStream = fileSystem.append(hdfsWritePath);
+ this.writer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(fsDataOutputStream, StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
+ }
+
+ protected void writeRelation(final Relation r) {
+ try {
+ writer.write(new ObjectMapper().writeValueAsString(r));
+ writer.newLine();
+ } catch (final Exception e) {
+ throw new RuntimeException(e);
+ }
+ }
+
+
+
+
+}
diff --git a/dhp-workflows/dhp-blacklist/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/blacklist/blacklist_parameters.json b/dhp-workflows/dhp-blacklist/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/blacklist/blacklist_parameters.json
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+++ b/dhp-workflows/dhp-blacklist/src/main/resources/eu/dnetlib/dhp/blacklist/blacklist_parameters.json
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+[
+ {
+ "paramName": "p",
+ "paramLongName": "hdfsPath",
+ "paramDescription": "the path where storing the sequential file",
+ "paramRequired": true
+ },
+ {
+ "paramName": "pgurl",
+ "paramLongName": "postgresUrl",
+ "paramDescription": "postgres url, example: jdbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/testdb",
+ "paramRequired": true
+ },
+ {
+ "paramName": "pguser",
+ "paramLongName": "postgresUser",
+ "paramDescription": "postgres user",
+ "paramRequired": false
+ },
+ {
+ "paramName": "pgpasswd",
+ "paramLongName": "postgresPassword",
+ "paramDescription": "postgres password",
+ "paramRequired": false
+ },
+ {
+ "paramName": "a",
+ "paramLongName": "action",
+ "paramDescription": "process claims",
+ "paramRequired": false
+ }
+]
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