/* * Copyright 2002-2005 the original author or authors. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package org.springmodules.lucene.index.factory; import java.io.IOException; import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader; import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter; /** * <p>This is the index factory abstraction to get reader and writer * instances to work on a Lucene index. These instances can be used * to get informations about it or manipulate it with the LuceneIndexTemplate * class or with the different indexer classes. * * @author Thierry Templier */ public interface SmartIndexFactory extends IndexFactory { /** * This method determines if the IndexReader should be closed or * not. This check is made by both the Spring Modules's * IndexReaderFactoryUtils and LuceneIndexTemplate classes * @param indexReader the IndexReader to check * @return whether the given index reader should be closed */ boolean shouldCloseIndexReader(IndexReader indexReader); }