BindingSet changes in version 6

[doggyfood]

I have seen that good old org.openrdf.query.BindingSet has been wraped/replaced by com.stardog.stark.query.BindingSet in Stardog 6.

I used to do something similar to:

TupleQueryResult qResult = query.execute()) {
      while (qResult.hasNext()) {
          BindingSet bindingSet = qResult.next();
          // Check first if getValue() is not null or face NullPointer
          String val = bindingSet.getValue("label").stringValue()
          ....

Now it seems I can do something similar:
String val = bindingSet.get("label").toString()

But this is now giving me additional datatype information, such as: ^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#date>

My questions are:

• Is what I am doing the most efficient way to get the results from a query?
• How can I simply get the value, with no associated datatype, as I used to?

(By the way, the latest DOCs are outdated, they still use TupleQueryResult)

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EDIT:
I have found a way for the second question, although I'm not sure this is the right way:
String val = bindingSet.literal("label").get().label()

[stephen]

To retrieve the string value or label of a Value, it's best practice to use the static Value.lex(Value v) method. That handles not only Literal values, but also BNodes. The stark BindingSet methods now return a Java 8 Optional of the value, so you can easily deal with that by doing:

String val = bindingSet.literal("label").map(Value::lex)

As far as the most efficient way to get the results from a query, the stark suite also supports Java 8's Stream, which allows for some functional and efficient result processing:

try(SelectQueryResult r = query.execute()) {
  r.stream()
    .map(bindingSet -> bindingSet.literal("label").map(Value::lex))
    .filter(Objects::nonNull)
    .forEach(System.out::println);
}

[doggyfood]

Thanks. I realised late that it was an Optional. Thanks for confirming the way to deal with it.