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+package org.apache.lucene.search;
+
+/**
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+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
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+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.Closeable;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
+import org.apache.lucene.document.FieldSelector;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.CorruptIndexException;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
+
+/**
+ * The interface for search implementations.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * Searchable is the abstract network protocol for searching. Implementations
+ * provide search over a single index, over multiple indices, and over indices
+ * on remote servers.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * Queries, filters and sort criteria are designed to be compact so that they
+ * may be efficiently passed to a remote index, with only the top-scoring hits
+ * being returned, rather than every matching hit.
+ *
+ * <b>NOTE:</b> this interface is kept public for convenience. Since it is not
+ * expected to be implemented directly, it may be changed unexpectedly between
+ * releases.
+ *
+ * @deprecated In 4.0 this interface is removed/absorbed
+ * into IndexSearcher
+ */
+@Deprecated
+public interface Searchable extends Closeable {
+
+ /**
+ * Lower-level search API.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * {@link Collector#collect(int)} is called for every 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,int)}) is
+ * usually more efficient, as it skips non-high-scoring hits.
+ *
+ * @param weight
+ * to match documents
+ * @param filter
+ * if non-null, used to permit documents to be collected.
+ * @param collector
+ * to receive hits
+ * @throws BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses
+ */
+ void search(Weight weight, Filter filter, Collector collector) throws IOException;
+
+ /** Frees resources associated with this Searcher.
+ * Be careful not to call this method while you are still using objects
+ * that reference this Searchable.
+ */
+ void close() throws IOException;
+
+ /** Expert: Returns the number of documents containing <code>term</code>.
+ *
+ * @see org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader#docFreq(Term)
+ */
+ int docFreq(Term term) throws IOException;
+
+ /** Expert: For each term in the terms array, calculates the number of
+ * documents containing <code>term</code>. Returns an array with these
+ * document frequencies. Used to minimize number of remote calls.
+ */
+ int[] docFreqs(Term[] terms) throws IOException;
+
+ /** Expert: Returns one greater than the largest possible document number.
+ *
+ * @see org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader#maxDoc()
+ */
+ int maxDoc() throws IOException;
+
+ /** Expert: Low-level search implementation. Finds the top <code>n</code>
+ * hits for <code>query</code>, applying <code>filter</code> if non-null.
+ *
+ * <p>Applications should usually call {@link Searcher#search(Query,int)} or
+ * {@link Searcher#search(Query,Filter,int)} instead.
+ * @throws BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses
+ */
+ TopDocs search(Weight weight, Filter filter, int n) throws IOException;
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the stored fields of document <code>i</code>.
+ *
+ * @see org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader#document(int)
+ * @throws CorruptIndexException if the index is corrupt
+ * @throws IOException if there is a low-level IO error
+ */
+ Document doc(int i) throws CorruptIndexException, IOException;
+
+ /**
+ * Get the {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Document} at the <code>n</code><sup>th</sup> position. The {@link org.apache.lucene.document.FieldSelector}
+ * may be used to determine what {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Field}s to load and how they should be loaded.
+ *
+ * <b>NOTE:</b> If the underlying Reader (more specifically, the underlying <code>FieldsReader</code>) is closed before the lazy {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Field} is
+ * loaded an exception may be thrown. If you want the value of a lazy {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Field} to be available after closing you must
+ * explicitly load it or fetch the Document again with a new loader.
+ *
+ *
+ * @param n Get the document at the <code>n</code><sup>th</sup> position
+ * @param fieldSelector The {@link org.apache.lucene.document.FieldSelector} to use to determine what Fields should be loaded on the Document. May be null, in which case all Fields will be loaded.
+ * @return The stored fields of the {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Document} at the nth position
+ * @throws CorruptIndexException if the index is corrupt
+ * @throws IOException if there is a low-level IO error
+ *
+ * @see org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader#document(int, FieldSelector)
+ * @see org.apache.lucene.document.Fieldable
+ * @see org.apache.lucene.document.FieldSelector
+ * @see org.apache.lucene.document.SetBasedFieldSelector
+ * @see org.apache.lucene.document.LoadFirstFieldSelector
+ */
+ Document doc(int n, FieldSelector fieldSelector) throws CorruptIndexException, IOException;
+
+ /** Expert: called to re-write queries into primitive queries.
+ * @throws BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses
+ */
+ Query rewrite(Query query) throws IOException;
+
+ /** Expert: low-level implementation method
+ * Returns an Explanation that describes how <code>doc</code> scored against
+ * <code>weight</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.
+ * <p>Applications should call {@link Searcher#explain(Query, int)}.
+ * @throws BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses
+ */
+ Explanation explain(Weight weight, int doc) throws IOException;
+
+ /** Expert: Low-level 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>Applications should usually call {@link
+ * Searcher#search(Query,Filter,int,Sort)} instead.
+ *
+ * @throws BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses
+ */
+ TopFieldDocs search(Weight weight, Filter filter, int n, Sort sort)
+ throws IOException;
+
+}