org.apache.jackrabbit.core.query
Interface QueryTreeBuilder

All Known Implementing Classes:

QueryBuilder, QueryBuilder

public interface QueryTreeBuilder

Specifies an interface for a query tree builder.

Method Summary

boolean	canHandle(String language) Returns true if this query tree builder can handle a statement in language.
QueryRootNode	createQueryTree(String statement, NamespaceResolver resolver) Creates a QueryNode tree from a statement.
String	toString(QueryRootNode root, NamespaceResolver resolver) Creates a String representation of the query node tree in the syntax this QueryTreeBuilder can handle.

Method Detail

createQueryTree

public QueryRootNode createQueryTree(String statement,
                                     NamespaceResolver resolver)
                              throws InvalidQueryException

Creates a QueryNode tree from a statement.

Parameters:

statement - the statement.

resolver - the namespace resolver to use.

Returns:

the QueryNode tree for the statement.

Throws:

InvalidQueryException - if the statement is malformed.

canHandle

public boolean canHandle(String language)

Returns true if this query tree builder can handle a statement in language.

Parameters:

language - the language of a query statement to build a query tree.

Returns:

true if this builder can handle language; false otherwise.

toString

public String toString(QueryRootNode root,
                       NamespaceResolver resolver)
                throws InvalidQueryException

Creates a String representation of the query node tree in the syntax this QueryTreeBuilder can handle.

Parameters:

root - the root of the query node tree.

resolver - to resolve QNames.

Returns:

a String representation of the query node tree.

Throws:

InvalidQueryException - if the query node tree cannot be converted into a String representation due to restrictions in this syntax.