public abstract class

Searcher

extends Object
implements Searchable
package org.apache.lucene.search;

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import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
import org.apache.lucene.index.CorruptIndexException;
import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
import org.apache.lucene.document.FieldSelector;

/**
 * An abstract base class for search implementations. Implements the main search
 * methods.
 * 
 * <p>
 * Note that you can only access hits from a Searcher as long as it is not yet
 * closed, otherwise an IOException will be thrown.
 */
public abstract class Searcher implements Searchable {
  /** Search implementation with arbitrary sorting.  Finds
   * the top <code>n</code> hits for <code>query</code>, applying
   * <code>filter</code> if non-null, and sorting the hits by the criteria in
   * <code>sort</code>.
   * 
   * <p>NOTE: this does not compute scores by default; use
   * {@link IndexSearcher#setDefaultFieldSortScoring} to
   * enable scoring.
   *
   * @throws BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses
   */
  public TopFieldDocs search(Query query, Filter filter, int n,
                             Sort sort) throws IOException {
    return search(createWeight(query), filter, n, sort);
  }

  /** Lower-level search API.
  *
  * <p>{@link Collector#collect(int)} is called for every matching document.
  *
  * <p>Applications should only use this if they need <i>all</i> of the
  * matching documents.  The high-level search API ({@link
  * Searcher#search(Query, int)}) is usually more efficient, as it skips
  * non-high-scoring hits.
  * <p>Note: The <code>score</code> passed to this method is a raw score.
  * In other words, the score will not necessarily be a float whose value is
  * between 0 and 1.
  * @throws BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses
  */
 public void search(Query query, Collector results)
   throws IOException {
   search(createWeight(query), null, results);
 }

  /** Lower-level search API.
   *
   * <p>{@link Collector#collect(int)} is called for every matching
   * document.
   * <br>Collector-based access to remote indexes is discouraged.
   *
   * <p>Applications should only use this if they need <i>all</i> of the
   * matching documents.  The high-level search API ({@link
   * Searcher#search(Query, Filter, int)}) is usually more efficient, as it skips
   * non-high-scoring hits.
   *
   * @param query to match documents
   * @param filter if non-null, used to permit documents to be collected.
   * @param results to receive hits
   * @throws BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses
   */
  public void search(Query query, Filter filter, Collector results)
  throws IOException {
    search(createWeight(query), filter, results);
  }

  /** Finds the top <code>n</code>
   * hits for <code>query</code>, applying <code>filter</code> if non-null.
   *
   * @throws BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses
   */
  public TopDocs search(Query query, Filter filter, int n)
    throws IOException {
    return search(createWeight(query), filter, n);
  }

  /** Finds the top <code>n</code>
   * hits for <code>query</code>.
   *
   * @throws BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses
   */
  public TopDocs search(Query query, int n)
    throws IOException {
    return search(query, null, n);
  }

  /** Returns an Explanation that describes how <code>doc</code> scored against
   * <code>query</code>.
   *
   * <p>This is intended to be used in developing Similarity implementations,
   * and, for good performance, should not be displayed with every hit.
   * Computing an explanation is as expensive as executing the query over the
   * entire index.
   */
  public Explanation explain(Query query, int doc) throws IOException {
    return explain(createWeight(query), doc);
  }

  /** The Similarity implementation used by this searcher. */
  private Similarity similarity = Similarity.getDefault();

  /** Expert: Set the Similarity implementation used by this Searcher.
   *
   * @see Similarity#setDefault(Similarity)
   */
  public void setSimilarity(Similarity similarity) {
    this.similarity = similarity;
  }

  /** Expert: Return the Similarity implementation used by this Searcher.
   *
   * <p>This defaults to the current value of {@link Similarity#getDefault()}.
   */
  public Similarity getSimilarity() {
    return this.similarity;
  }

  /**
   * creates a weight for <code>query</code>
   * @return new weight
   */
  protected Weight createWeight(Query query) throws IOException {
    return query.weight(this);
  }

  // inherit javadoc
  public int[] docFreqs(Term[] terms) throws IOException {
    int[] result = new int[terms.length];
    for (int i = 0; i < terms.length; i++) {
      result[i] = docFreq(terms[i]);
    }
    return result;
  }

  abstract public void search(Weight weight, Filter filter, Collector results) throws IOException;
  abstract public void close() throws IOException;
  abstract public int docFreq(Term term) throws IOException;
  abstract public int maxDoc() throws IOException;
  abstract public TopDocs search(Weight weight, Filter filter, int n) throws IOException;
  abstract public Document doc(int i) throws CorruptIndexException, IOException;
  abstract public Document doc(int docid, FieldSelector fieldSelector) throws CorruptIndexException, IOException;
  abstract public Query rewrite(Query query) throws IOException;
  abstract public Explanation explain(Weight weight, int doc) throws IOException;
  abstract public TopFieldDocs search(Weight weight, Filter filter, int n, Sort sort) throws IOException;
  /* End patch for GCJ bug #15411. */
}