SearchResult.java

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package org.apache.wiki.search;

import org.apache.wiki.WikiPage;


/**
 *  Defines a search result.
 */
public interface SearchResult {
    
	/**
     *  Return the page.
     *  
     *  @return the WikiPage object containing this result
     */
    WikiPage getPage();

    /**
     *  Returns the score.
     *  
     *  @return A positive score value.  Note that there is no upper limit for the score.
     */
    int getScore();
    
    
    /**
     * Collection of XHTML fragments representing some contexts in which the match was made (a.k.a., "snippets").
     *
     * @return the search results
     * @since 2.4
     */
    String[] getContexts();

}