org.exoplatform.commons.api.search
Class SearchServiceConnector

java.lang.Object
  org.exoplatform.container.component.BaseComponentPlugin
      org.exoplatform.commons.api.search.SearchServiceConnector

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.exoplatform.container.component.ComponentPlugin

public abstract class SearchServiceConnector
extends org.exoplatform.container.component.BaseComponentPlugin

This abstract class is extended by the SearchService connectors which provide search result for a specific content type Created by The eXo Platform SAS Author : Tung Vu Minh tungvm@exoplatform.com Nov 21, 2012

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.exoplatform.container.component.BaseComponentPlugin

desc, name

Constructor Summary

SearchServiceConnector(org.exoplatform.container.xml.InitParams initParams)

Method Summary

String	getDisplayName()
String	getSearchType()
abstract Collection<SearchResult>	search(SearchContext context, String query, Collection<String> sites, int offset, int limit, String sort, String order) The connectors must implement this search method, with the following parameters and return a collection of SearchResult
void	setDisplayName(String displayName)
void	setSearchType(String searchType)

Methods inherited from class org.exoplatform.container.component.BaseComponentPlugin

getDescription, getName, setDescription, setName

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SearchServiceConnector

public SearchServiceConnector(org.exoplatform.container.xml.InitParams initParams)

Method Detail

getSearchType

public String getSearchType()

setSearchType

public void setSearchType(String searchType)

getDisplayName

public String getDisplayName()

setDisplayName

public void setDisplayName(String displayName)

search

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

The connectors must implement this search method, with the following parameters and return a collection of SearchResult

Parameters:

context - Search context

query - The user-input query to search for

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

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 collection of SearchResult