org.apache.nutch.searcher
Interface Searcher

All Superinterfaces:

Closeable

All Known Subinterfaces:

DistributedSearch.Protocol

All Known Implementing Classes:

DistributedSearch.Client, IndexSearcher, NutchBean

public interface Searcher
extends org.apache.hadoop.io.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, int numHits, String dedupField, String sortField, boolean reverse) Return the top-scoring hits for a query.

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

Return the top-scoring hits for a query.

Throws:

IOException

getExplanation

String getExplanation(Query query,
                      Hit hit)
                      throws IOException

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

Throws:

IOException