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package org.hibernate.search.engine.spi;

import java.util.Set;

import org.apache.lucene.search.Similarity;
import org.hibernate.search.indexes.spi.IndexManager;
import org.hibernate.search.indexes.interceptor.EntityIndexingInterceptor;
import org.hibernate.search.query.collector.impl.FieldCacheCollectorFactory;
import org.hibernate.search.store.IndexShardingStrategy;

/**
 * Specifies the relation and options from an indexed entity to its index(es).
 * 
 * @author Sanne Grinovero <sanne@hibernate.org> (C) 2011 Red Hat Inc.
 * @since 4.0
 */
public interface EntityIndexBinder {

	/**
	 * @return the Similarity used to search and index this entity
	 */
	Similarity getSimilarity();

	/**
	 * @return the sharding strategy
	 */
	IndexShardingStrategy getSelectionStrategy();

	/**
	 * @return
	 */
	DocumentBuilderIndexedEntity<?> getDocumentBuilder();

	/**
	 * @return
	 */
	FieldCacheCollectorFactory getIdFieldCacheCollectionFactory();

	/**
	 * @param indexedClasses
	 */
	void postInitialize(Set<Class<?>> indexedClasses);

	/**
	 * @return
	 */
	IndexManager[] getIndexManagers();

	EntityIndexingInterceptor<?> getEntityIndexingInterceptor();
}