BrightstarDB SPARQL Endpoint Controller

SparqlController.cs

using System;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using NetworkedPlanet.Brightstar.Client;

namespace NetworkedPlanet.BrightStar.Samples.NerdDinner.Controllers
{
    public class SparqlController : Controller
    {
        [ValidateInput(false)]
        public ActionResult Index(string query)
        {
            if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(query))
            {
                return View("Error");
            }
            var client = BrightstarService.GetClient();
            var results = client.ExecuteQuery("NerdDinner", query);
            return new FileStreamResult(results, "application/xml; charset=utf-16");
        }
    }
}

BrightstarDB uses SPARQL as its primary query language. Because of this and because all the entities you create with the BrightstarDB entity framework are RDF resources, it is possible to turn your application into a part of the Linked Data web with just a few lines of code. The easiest way to achieve this is to add a controller for running SPARQL queries. This gist shows the outline of just such a controller that queries the BrightstarDB store named "NerdDinner"