org.hibernate.search
Interface SearchFactory

All Known Subinterfaces:

SearchFactoryImplementor, SearchFactoryImplementorWithShareableState, SearchFactoryIntegrator

All Known Implementing Classes:

ImmutableSearchFactory, MutableSearchFactory

public interface SearchFactory

Provide application wide operations as well as access to the underlying Lucene resources.

Author:

Emmanuel Bernard, Hardy Ferentschik, Sanne Grinovero

Method Summary

QueryContextBuilder	buildQueryBuilder()
org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer	getAnalyzer(Class<?> clazz) Retrieves the scoped analyzer for a given class.
org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer	getAnalyzer(String name) Retrieve an analyzer instance by its definition name
IndexReaderAccessor	getIndexReaderAccessor() Provides access to the IndexReader API
Statistics	getStatistics() Retrieve the statistics instance for this factory.
void	optimize() Optimize all indexes
void	optimize(Class entityType) Optimize the index holding entityType

Method Detail

optimize

void optimize()

Optimize all indexes

optimize

void optimize(Class entityType)

Optimize the index holding entityType

Parameters:

entityType - the entity type (index) to optimize

getAnalyzer

org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer getAnalyzer(String name)

Retrieve an analyzer instance by its definition name

Parameters:

name - the name of the analyzer

Returns:

analyzer with the specified name

Throws:

SearchException - if the definition name is unknown

getAnalyzer

org.apache.lucene.analysis.Analyzer getAnalyzer(Class<?> clazz)

Retrieves the scoped analyzer for a given class.

Parameters:

clazz - The class for which to retrieve the analyzer.

Returns:

The scoped analyzer for the specified class.

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - in case clazz == null or the specified class is not an indexed entity.

buildQueryBuilder

QueryContextBuilder buildQueryBuilder()

Returns:

return a query builder providing a fluent API to create Lucene queries

getStatistics

Statistics getStatistics()

Retrieve the statistics instance for this factory.

Returns:

The statistics.

getIndexReaderAccessor

IndexReaderAccessor getIndexReaderAccessor()

Provides access to the IndexReader API

Returns:

the IndexReaderAccessor for this SearchFactory