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package org.springmodules.lucene.search.core;
import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
/**
* Callback interface for extracting data from hits of search
* result.
*
* <p>Used for output search results in the LuceneSearchTemplate. Alternatively,
* the Lucene HitCollector class can be used directly.
*
* @author Thierry Templier
* @see org.springmodules.lucene.search.core.DefaultLuceneSearchTemplate#search(Query, HitExtractor)
* @see org.springmodules.lucene.search.core.DefaultLuceneSearchTemplate#search(Query, HitExtractor, Filter)
* @see org.springmodules.lucene.search.core.DefaultLuceneSearchTemplate#search(Query, HitExtractor, Filter, Sort)
* @see org.springmodules.lucene.search.core.DefaultLuceneSearchTemplate#search(Query, HitExtractor, Sort)
* @see org.springmodules.lucene.search.core.DefaultLuceneSearchTemplate#search(QueryCreator, HitExtractor)
* @see org.springmodules.lucene.search.core.DefaultLuceneSearchTemplate#search(QueryCreator, HitExtractor, Filter)
* @see org.springmodules.lucene.search.core.DefaultLuceneSearchTemplate#search(QueryCreator, HitExtractor, Filter, Sort)
* @see org.springmodules.lucene.search.core.DefaultLuceneSearchTemplate#search(QueryCreator, HitExtractor, Sort)
*/
public interface HitExtractor {
/**
* Create a Lucene independant result object from a Lucene result.
* The callback method has the internal document identifier, the Lucene
* document and the score of the document in the search as method
* parameters.
* @param id the internal document identifier
* @param document the Document instance
* @param score the score of the document in the search
* @return a result object
*/
Object mapHit(int id, Document document, float score);
}