org.apache.nutch.searcher
Interface Searcher

All Known Subinterfaces:

DistributedSearch.Protocol

All Known Implementing Classes:

DistributedSearch.Client, IndexSearcher, NutchBean

public interface Searcher

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.

Method Detail

search

public 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

public String getExplanation(Query query,
                             Hit hit)
                      throws IOException

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

Throws:

IOException