org.apache.stanbol.entityhub.servicesapi.site

Interface EntitySearcher

public interface EntitySearcher

Interface used to provide service/technology specific implementation of the search interface provided by Site.

Author:

Rupert Westenthaler

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static String	QUERY_URI The key used to define the baseUri of the query service used for the implementation of this interface.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
QueryResultList<Representation>	find(FieldQuery query) Searches for Entities based on the parsed FieldQuery and returns for each entity an Representation over the selected fields and values
QueryResultList<String>	findEntities(FieldQuery query) Searches for Entities based on the parsed FieldQuery

Field Detail

QUERY_URI

static final String QUERY_URI

The key used to define the baseUri of the query service used for the implementation of this interface.
This constants actually uses the value of SiteConfiguration#QUERY_URI

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

findEntities

QueryResultList<String> findEntities(FieldQuery query)
                                     throws IOException

Searches for Entities based on the parsed FieldQuery

Parameters:

query - the query

Returns:

the result of the query

Throws:

IOException

find

QueryResultList<Representation> find(FieldQuery query)
                                     throws IOException

Searches for Entities based on the parsed FieldQuery and returns for each entity an Representation over the selected fields and values

Parameters:

query - the query

Returns:

the found entities as representation containing only the selected fields and there values.

Throws:

IOException