net.ontopia.infoset.fulltext.core
Interface SearcherIF

All Known Implementing Classes:

FulltextIndexManager, LuceneSearcher, RDBMSSearcher

public interface SearcherIF

INTERNAL: Represents a search engine. Instances of this class are able to perform searches across a collection of documents.

Method Summary

void	close() INTERNAL: Releases resources associated with this searcher.
SearchResultIF	search(String query) INTERNAL: Performs a query on an index.

Method Detail

search

SearchResultIF search(String query)
                      throws IOException

INTERNAL: Performs a query on an index. The actual query syntax is search engine dependent.

Throws:

IOException

close

void close()
           throws IOException

INTERNAL: Releases resources associated with this searcher.

Throws:

IOException