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* Copyright statement:
* --------------------
* (c) 2002-2005 by Mathias Lux (mathias@juggle.at)
* http://www.juggle.at, http://caliph-emir.sourceforge.net
*/
package at.lux.fotoretrieval.retrievalengines;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.Vector;
import javax.swing.JProgressBar;
import org.jdom.Element;
import at.lux.fotoretrieval.ResultListEntry;
/**
* Implements rtwo methods, exactly those with no JProgressBar. They just give null as parameter.
* Date: 13.10.2004
* Time: 20:56:05
*
* @author Mathias Lux, mathias@juggle.at
*/
public abstract class AbstractRetrievalEngine implements RetrievalEngine {
abstract public List<ResultListEntry> getSimilarImages_fromSet(Set <Element> VisualDescriptorSet, String whereToSearch, boolean recursive, JProgressBar progress);
public List<ResultListEntry> getSimilarImages_fromSet(Set<Element> VisualDescriptor, String whereToSearch, boolean recursive) {
return getSimilarImages_fromSet(VisualDescriptor, whereToSearch, recursive, null);
}
public List<ResultListEntry> getSimilarImages(Element VisualDescriptor, String whereToSearch, boolean recursive) {
return getSimilarImages(VisualDescriptor, whereToSearch, recursive, null);
}
public List<ResultListEntry> getImagesByXPathSearch(String xPath, String whereToSearch, boolean recursive) {
return getImagesByXPathSearch(xPath, whereToSearch, recursive, null);
}
/**
* This method has to be able to cope with null as parameter for the JProgressBar.
* @param xPath
* @param objects
* @param whereToSearch
* @param recursive
* @param progress can be null.
*/
abstract public List<ResultListEntry> getImagesBySemantics(String xPath, Vector objects, String whereToSearch, boolean recursive, JProgressBar progress);
/**
* This method has to be able to cope with null as parameter for the JProgressBar.
* @param VisualDescriptor
* @param whereToSearch
* @param recursive
* @param progress can be null.
*/
abstract public List<ResultListEntry> getSimilarImages(Element VisualDescriptor, String whereToSearch, boolean recursive, JProgressBar progress);
/**
* This method has to be able to cope with null as parameter for the JProgressBar.
* @param xPath
* @param whereToSearch
* @param recursive
* @param progress can be null.
*/
abstract public List<ResultListEntry> getImagesByXPathSearch(String xPath, String whereToSearch, boolean recursive, JProgressBar progress);
}