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 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.search.query.hibernate.impl;

import java.util.List;

import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.search.engine.spi.SearchFactoryImplementor;
import org.hibernate.search.query.engine.spi.EntityInfo;
import org.hibernate.search.query.engine.spi.TimeoutManager;

/**
 * Interface defining a set of operations in order to load entities which matched a query. Depending on the type of
 * indexed entities and the type of query different strategies can be used.
 *
 *
 * @author Emmanuel Bernard
 */
public interface Loader {
	void init(
			Session session,
			SearchFactoryImplementor searchFactoryImplementor,
			ObjectsInitializer objectsInitializer,
			TimeoutManager timeoutManager);

	Object load(EntityInfo entityInfo);

	Object loadWithoutTiming(EntityInfo entityInfo);

	List load(EntityInfo... entityInfos);

	boolean isSizeSafe();
}