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package org.hibernate.search;

import org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer;

import org.hibernate.search.indexes.IndexReaderAccessor;
import org.hibernate.search.query.dsl.QueryContextBuilder;
import org.hibernate.search.stat.Statistics;

/**
 * Provide application wide operations as well as access to the underlying Lucene resources.
 *
 * @author Emmanuel Bernard
 * @author Hardy Ferentschik
 * @author Sanne Grinovero
 */
public interface SearchFactory {

	/**
	 * Optimize all indexes
	 */
	void optimize();

	/**
	 * Optimize the index holding <code>entityType</code>
	 *
	 * @param entityType the entity type (index) to optimize
	 */
	void optimize(Class entityType);

	/**
	 * Retrieve an analyzer instance by its definition name
	 *
	 * @param name the name of the analyzer
	 * @return analyzer with the specified name
	 * @throws org.hibernate.search.SearchException if the definition name is unknown
	 */
	Analyzer getAnalyzer(String name);

	/**
	 * Retrieves the scoped analyzer for a given class.
	 *
	 * @param clazz The class for which to retrieve the analyzer.
	 * @return The scoped analyzer for the specified class.
	 * @throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException in case <code>clazz == null</code> or the specified
	 *                                  class is not an indexed entity.
	 */
	Analyzer getAnalyzer(Class<?> clazz);

	/**
	 * @return return a query builder providing a fluent API to create Lucene queries
	 */
	QueryContextBuilder buildQueryBuilder();

	/**
	 * Retrieve the statistics instance for this factory.
	 *
	 * @return The statistics.
	 */
	Statistics getStatistics();

	/**
	 * Provides access to the IndexReader API
	 *
	 * @return the IndexReaderAccessor for this SearchFactory
	 */
	IndexReaderAccessor getIndexReaderAccessor();

}