org.apache.nutch.searcher
Interface Searcher

All Superinterfaces:

Closeable

All Known Subinterfaces:

RPCSearchBean, SearchBean

All Known Implementing Classes:

DistributedSearchBean, IndexSearcher, LuceneSearchBean, NutchBean, SolrSearchBean

public interface Searcher
extends Closeable

Service that searches.

Method Summary

String	getExplanation(Query query, Hit hit) Return an HTML-formatted explanation of how a query scored.
Hits	search(Query query) Return the top-scoring hits for a query.
Hits	search(Query query, int numHits, String dedupField, String sortField, boolean reverse) Deprecated. since 1.1, use search(Query) instead.

Methods inherited from interface java.io.Closeable

close

Method Detail

search

Hits search(Query query,
            int numHits,
            String dedupField,
            String sortField,
            boolean reverse)
            throws IOException

Deprecated. since 1.1, use search(Query) instead.

Return the top-scoring hits for a query.

Throws:

IOException

search

Hits search(Query query)
            throws IOException

Return the top-scoring hits for a query.

Throws:

IOException

Since:

1.1

getExplanation

String getExplanation(Query query,
                      Hit hit)
                      throws IOException

Return an HTML-formatted explanation of how a query scored.

Throws:

IOException