package org.apache.lucene.search;

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import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;       // for javadoc

/** The interface for search implementations.
 *
 * <p>Searchable is the abstract network protocol for searching. 
 * Implementations provide search over a single index, over multiple
 * indices, and over indices on remote servers.
 *
 * <p>Queries, filters and sort criteria are designed to be compact so that
 * they may be efficiently passed to a remote index, with only the top-scoring
 * hits being returned, rather than every non-zero scoring hit.
 */
public interface Searchable extends java.rmi.Remote {
  /** Lower-level search API.
   *
   * <p>{@link HitCollector#collect(int,float)} is called for every non-zero
   * scoring document.
   * <br>HitCollector-based access to remote indexes is discouraged.
   *
   * <p>Applications should only use this if they need <i>all</i> of the
   * matching documents.  The high-level search API ({@link
   * Searcher#search(Query)}) is usually more efficient, as it skips
   * non-high-scoring hits.
   *
   * @param weight to match documents
   * @param filter if non-null, a bitset used to eliminate some documents
   * @param results to receive hits
   * @throws BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses
   */
  void search(Weight weight, Filter filter, HitCollector results)
  throws IOException;

  /** Expert: Low-level search implementation.
   * @deprecated use {@link Searcher#search(Query, Filter, HitCollector)} instead.
   */
  void search(Query query, Filter filter, HitCollector results)
    throws IOException;

  /** Frees resources associated with this Searcher.
   * Be careful not to call this method while you are still using objects
   * like {@link Hits}.
   */
  void close() throws IOException;

  /** Expert: Returns the number of documents containing <code>term</code>.
   * Called by search code to compute term weights.
   * @see IndexReader#docFreq(Term)
   */
  int docFreq(Term term) throws IOException;

  /** Expert: For each term in the terms array, calculates the number of
   * documents containing <code>term</code>. Returns an array with these
   * document frequencies. Used to minimize number of remote calls.
   */
  int[] docFreqs(Term[] terms) throws IOException;

  /** Expert: Returns one greater than the largest possible document number.
   * Called by search code to compute term weights.
   * @see IndexReader#maxDoc()
   */
  int maxDoc() throws IOException;

  /** Expert: Low-level search implementation.  Finds the top <code>n</code>
   * hits for <code>query</code>, applying <code>filter</code> if non-null.
   *
   * <p>Called by {@link Hits}.
   *
   * <p>Applications should usually call {@link Searcher#search(Query)} or
   * {@link Searcher#search(Query,Filter)} instead.
   * @throws BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses
   */
  TopDocs search(Weight weight, Filter filter, int n) throws IOException;

  /** Expert: Low-level search implementation.
   * @deprecated use {@link Searcher#search(Query, Filter, int)} instead.
   */
  TopDocs search(Query query, Filter filter, int n) throws IOException;

  /** Expert: Returns the stored fields of document <code>i</code>.
   * Called by {@link HitCollector} implementations.
   * @see IndexReader#document(int)
   */
  Document doc(int i) throws IOException;

  /** Expert: called to re-write queries into primitive queries.
   * @throws BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses
   */
  Query rewrite(Query query) throws IOException;

  /** Expert: low-level implementation method
   * Returns an Explanation that describes how <code>doc</code> scored against
   * <code>weight</code>.
   *
   * <p>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.
   * <p>Applications should call {@link Searcher#explain(Query, int)}.
   * @throws BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses
   */
  Explanation explain(Weight weight, int doc) throws IOException;

  /**
   * @deprecated use {@link Searcher#explain(Query, int)} instead.
   */
  Explanation explain(Query query, int doc) throws IOException;

  /** Expert: Low-level search implementation with arbitrary sorting.  Finds
   * the top <code>n</code> hits for <code>query</code>, applying
   * <code>filter</code> if non-null, and sorting the hits by the criteria in
   * <code>sort</code>.
   *
   * <p>Applications should usually call {@link
   * Searcher#search(Query,Filter,Sort)} instead.
   * @throws BooleanQuery.TooManyClauses
   */
  TopFieldDocs search(Weight weight, Filter filter, int n, Sort sort)
  throws IOException;

  /** Expert: Low-level search implementation.
   * @deprecated use {@link Searcher#search(Query, Filter, int, Sort)} instead.
   */
  TopFieldDocs search(Query query, Filter filter, int n, Sort sort)
    throws IOException;
}

@@ -2143,37 +2143,38 @@
 Searcher#search(
-Query
+Weight
 , Filter, HitCol
@@ -3696,37 +3696,38 @@
 Searcher#search(
-Query
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@@ -4817,29 +4817,30 @@
 her#explain(
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@@ -5494,21 +5494,22 @@
 #search(
-Query
+Weight
 , Filter

fix deprecated referebces: LUCENE-468