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package org.apache.nutch.searcher;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Closeable;
/** Service that searches. */
public interface Searcher extends Closeable {
/**
* Return the top-scoring hits for a query.
*
* @deprecated since 1.1, use {@link #search(Query)} instead.
* */
Hits search(Query query, int numHits, String dedupField, String sortField,
boolean reverse) throws IOException;
/**
* Return the top-scoring hits for a query.
*
* @since 1.1
*/
Hits search(Query query) throws IOException;
/** Return an HTML-formatted explanation of how a query scored. */
String getExplanation(Query query, Hit hit) throws IOException;
}