SearchProvider.java

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package org.apache.wiki.search;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Collection;

import org.apache.wiki.WikiContext;
import org.apache.wiki.WikiPage;
import org.apache.wiki.WikiProvider;
import org.apache.wiki.api.exceptions.ProviderException;

/**
 *  Interface for the search providers that handle searching the Wiki
 *
 *  @since 2.2.21.
 */
public interface SearchProvider extends WikiProvider
{
    /**
     * Delete a page from the search index
     * @param page Page to remove from search index
     */
    void pageRemoved(WikiPage page);

    /**
     *  Adds a WikiPage for indexing queue.  This is called a queue, since
     *  this method is expected to return pretty quickly, and indexing to
     *  be done in a separate thread.
     *
     *  @param page The WikiPage to be indexed.
     */
    void reindexPage(WikiPage page);

    /**
     * Search for pages matching a search query
     * @param query query to search for
     * @param wikiContext the context within which to run the search
     * @return collection of pages that match query
     * @throws ProviderException if the search provider failed.
     * @throws IOException if for some reason the query could not be executed.
     */
    Collection findPages(String query, WikiContext wikiContext) throws ProviderException, IOException;
}