IQueryEvaluator.java

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package com.esri.gpt.server.csw.provider.components;

/**
 * Interface for evaluating a CSW query.
 */
public interface IQueryEvaluator {
  
  /**
   * Builds and evaluates an ID based query.
   * @param context the operation context
   * @param ids the IDs to query
   * @throws Exception if a processing exception occurs
   */
  public void evaluateIdQuery(OperationContext context, String[] ids) throws Exception;
  
  /**
   * Evaluates the query.
   * @param context the operation context
   * @throws Exception if a processing exception occurs
   */
  public void evaluateQuery(OperationContext context) throws Exception;

}