org.apache.xindice.core.query.ftsearch
Class Searcher

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.xindice.core.query.ftsearch.Searcher

public class Searcher

extends Object

Searcher executes full text queries against list of nodes and returns nodes that match the query in the order of relevance (score) - most relevant results will be return first.

Query syntax is the same as syntax of Lucene query, except it does not use field names.

Version:

$Revision: 584476 $, $Date: 2007-10-13 22:41:50 -0400 (Sat, 13 Oct 2007) $

Constructor Summary

Searcher(org.w3c.dom.NodeList nodes, org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer analyzer)
Builds new Searcher based on list of nodes and analyzer.

Method Summary

NodeSet

search(String query) Executes query against list of nodes and returns matches in the order of relevance (score).

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Searcher

public Searcher(org.w3c.dom.NodeList nodes,
                org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer analyzer)

Builds new Searcher based on list of nodes and analyzer.

Parameters:

nodes - List of nodes to search

analyzer - Analyzer that will be used to tokenize text of the nodes. Choice of analyzer affects query results.

See Also:

Analyzer

Method Detail

search

public NodeSet search(String query)
               throws org.apache.lucene.queryParser.ParseException

Executes query against list of nodes and returns matches in the order of relevance (score).

Parameters:

query - Full text query

Returns:

NodeSet that contains matching nodes

Throws:

org.apache.lucene.queryParser.ParseException - Query failed to be parsed