org.exoplatform.commons.api.search
Class SearchService

java.lang.Object
  org.exoplatform.commons.api.search.SearchService

public abstract class SearchService
extends Object

Created by The eXo Platform SAS Author : Tung Vu Minh tungvm@exoplatform.com Nov 21, 2012

Constructor Summary

SearchService()

Method Summary

void	addConnector(SearchServiceConnector connector)
LinkedList<SearchServiceConnector>	getConnectors()
abstract Map<String,Collection<SearchResult>>	search(SearchContext context, String query, Collection<String> sites, Collection<String> types, int offset, int limit, String sort, String order) This search method aggregates search results from all connectors

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

SearchService

public SearchService()

Method Detail

getConnectors

public LinkedList<SearchServiceConnector> getConnectors()

addConnector

public void addConnector(SearchServiceConnector connector)

search

public abstract Map<String,Collection<SearchResult>> search(SearchContext context,
                                                            String query,
                                                            Collection<String> sites,
                                                            Collection<String> types,
                                                            int offset,
                                                            int limit,
                                                            String sort,
                                                            String order)

This search method aggregates search results from all connectors

Parameters:

context - Search context

query - The user-input query to search for

sites - Search on these specified sites only (e.g acme, intranet...)

types - Search for these specified content types only (e.g people, discussion, event, task, wiki, activity, social, file, document...)

offset - Start offset of the result set

limit - Maximum size of the result set

sort - The field to sort the result set

order - Sort order (ASC, DESC)

Returns:

a map of connector with their search result