org.apache.jackrabbit.core.query.lucene
Interface NamespaceMappings

All Superinterfaces:

NamespaceResolver

All Known Implementing Classes:

FileBasedNamespaceMappings, NSRegistryBasedNamespaceMappings

public interface NamespaceMappings
extends NamespaceResolver

The class NamespaceMappings holds a namespace mapping that is used internally in the search index. Storing paths with the full uri of a namespace would require too much space in the search index.

Method Summary

String

translatePropertyName(Name qName) Translates a property name from a session local namespace mapping into a search index private namespace mapping.

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.jackrabbit.spi.commons.namespace.NamespaceResolver

getPrefix, getURI

Method Detail

translatePropertyName

String translatePropertyName(Name qName)
                             throws IllegalNameException

Translates a property name from a session local namespace mapping into a search index private namespace mapping.

Parameters:

qName - the property name to translate

Returns:

the translated JCR property name

Throws:

IllegalNameException