org.apache.lucene.search
Class MultiSearcher

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher
      org.apache.lucene.search.MultiSearcher

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.rmi.Remote, Searchable

Direct Known Subclasses:

ParallelMultiSearcher

public class MultiSearcher

extends Searcher

Implements search over a set of Searchables.

Applications usually need only call the inherited Searcher.search(Query) or Searcher.search(Query,Filter) methods.

Constructor Summary

MultiSearcher(Searchable[] searchables)
Creates a searcher which searches searchables.

Method Summary

void	close() Frees resources associated with this Searcher.
protected Weight	createWeight(Query original) Create weight in multiple index scenario.
Document	doc(int n) Expert: Returns the stored fields of document i.
int	docFreq(Term term) Expert: Returns the number of documents containing term.
Explanation	explain(Weight weight, int doc) Expert: low-level implementation method Returns an Explanation that describes how doc scored against weight.
Searchable[]	getSearchables() Return the array of Searchables this searches.
protected int[]	getStarts()
int	maxDoc() Expert: Returns one greater than the largest possible document number.
Query	rewrite(Query original) Expert: called to re-write queries into primitive queries.
void	search(Weight weight, Filter filter, HitCollector results) Lower-level search API.
TopDocs	search(Weight weight, Filter filter, int nDocs) Expert: Low-level search implementation.
TopFieldDocs	search(Weight weight, Filter filter, int n, Sort sort) Expert: Low-level search implementation with arbitrary sorting.
int	searcherIndex(int n) Deprecated.
int	subDoc(int n) Returns the document number of document n within its sub-index.
int	subSearcher(int n) Returns index of the searcher for document n in the array used to construct this searcher.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher

docFreqs, explain, getSimilarity, search, search, search, search, search, search, search, search, setSimilarity

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

MultiSearcher

public MultiSearcher(Searchable[] searchables)
              throws java.io.IOException

Creates a searcher which searches searchables.

Method Detail

getSearchables

public Searchable[] getSearchables()

Return the array of Searchables this searches.

getStarts

protected int[] getStarts()

close

public void close()
           throws java.io.IOException

Description copied from interface: Searchable

Frees resources associated with this Searcher. Be careful not to call this method while you are still using objects like Hits.

Specified by:

close in interface Searchable

Specified by:

close in class Searcher

Throws:

java.io.IOException

docFreq

public int docFreq(Term term)
            throws java.io.IOException

Description copied from interface: Searchable

Expert: Returns the number of documents containing term. Called by search code to compute term weights.

Specified by:

docFreq in interface Searchable

Specified by:

docFreq in class Searcher

Throws:

java.io.IOException

doc

public Document doc(int n)
             throws java.io.IOException

Description copied from interface: Searchable

Expert: Returns the stored fields of document i. Called by HitCollector implementations.

Specified by:

doc in interface Searchable

Specified by:

doc in class Searcher

Throws:

java.io.IOException

searcherIndex

public int searcherIndex(int n)

Deprecated.

Call subSearcher(int) instead.

subSearcher

public int subSearcher(int n)

Returns index of the searcher for document n in the array used to construct this searcher.

subDoc

public int subDoc(int n)

Returns the document number of document n within its sub-index.

maxDoc

public int maxDoc()
           throws java.io.IOException

Description copied from interface: Searchable

Expert: Returns one greater than the largest possible document number. Called by search code to compute term weights.

Specified by:

maxDoc in interface Searchable

Specified by:

maxDoc in class Searcher

Throws:

java.io.IOException

search

public TopDocs search(Weight weight,
                      Filter filter,
                      int nDocs)
               throws java.io.IOException

Description copied from interface: Searchable

Expert: Low-level search implementation. Finds the top n hits for query, applying filter if non-null.

Called by Hits.

Applications should usually call Searcher.search(Query) or Searcher.search(Query,Filter) instead.

Specified by:

search in interface Searchable

Specified by:

search in class Searcher

Throws:

java.io.IOException

search

public TopFieldDocs search(Weight weight,
                           Filter filter,
                           int n,
                           Sort sort)
                    throws java.io.IOException

Description copied from interface: Searchable

Expert: Low-level search implementation with arbitrary sorting. Finds the top n hits for query, applying filter if non-null, and sorting the hits by the criteria in sort.

Applications should usually call Searcher.search(Query,Filter,Sort) instead.

Specified by:

search in interface Searchable

Specified by:

search in class Searcher

Throws:

java.io.IOException

search

public void search(Weight weight,
                   Filter filter,
                   HitCollector results)
            throws java.io.IOException

Description copied from interface: Searchable

Lower-level search API.

HitCollector.collect(int,float) is called for every non-zero scoring document.
HitCollector-based access to remote indexes is discouraged.

Applications should only use this if they need all of the matching documents. The high-level search API (Searcher.search(Query)) is usually more efficient, as it skips non-high-scoring hits.

Specified by:

search in interface Searchable

Specified by:

search in class Searcher

Throws:

java.io.IOException

rewrite

public Query rewrite(Query original)
              throws java.io.IOException

Description copied from interface: Searchable

Expert: called to re-write queries into primitive queries.

Specified by:

rewrite in interface Searchable

Specified by:

rewrite in class Searcher

Throws:

java.io.IOException

explain

public Explanation explain(Weight weight,
                           int doc)
                    throws java.io.IOException

Description copied from interface: Searchable

Expert: low-level implementation method Returns an Explanation that describes how doc scored against weight.

This is intended to be used in developing Similarity implementations, and, for good performance, should not be displayed with every hit. Computing an explanation is as expensive as executing the query over the entire index.

Applications should call Searcher.explain(Query, int).

Specified by:

explain in interface Searchable

Specified by:

explain in class Searcher

Throws:

java.io.IOException

createWeight

protected Weight createWeight(Query original)
                       throws java.io.IOException

Create weight in multiple index scenario. Distributed query processing is done in the following steps: 1. rewrite query 2. extract necessary terms 3. collect dfs for these terms from the Searchables 4. create query weight using aggregate dfs. 5. distribute that weight to Searchables 6. merge results Steps 1-4 are done here, 5+6 in the search() methods

Overrides:

createWeight in class Searcher

Returns:

rewritten queries

Throws:

java.io.IOException