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tdepim/indexlib/index.h

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#ifndef LPC_INDEX_H1105549284_INCLUDE_GUARD_
#define LPC_INDEX_H1105549284_INCLUDE_GUARD_
/* This file is part of indexlib.
* Copyright (C) 2005 Luís Pedro Coelho <luis@luispedro.org>
*
* Indexlib is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
* under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2, as
* published by the Free Software Foundation and available as file
* GPL_V2 which is distributed along with indexlib.
*
* Indexlib is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
* WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
* MA 02110-1301, USA
*
* In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give
* permission to link the code of this program with any edition of
* the TQt library by Trolltech AS, Norway (or with modified versions
* of TQt that use the same license as TQt), and distribute linked
* combinations including the two. You must obey the GNU General
* Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than
* TQt. If you modify this file, you may extend this exception to
* your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do so. If
* you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from
* your version.
*/
#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <memory>
namespace indexlib {
/**
* Represents a result set
*
* The reason we do not return directly the answer set is twofold ( though connected )
*
* - We may decide to partially compute the set in the result list() method
* - The possibility of implementing result_type::search to more efficiently handle repeated searches
*/
struct result {
public:
virtual ~result() { }
/**
* The answer set
*/
virtual std::vector<unsigned> list() const = 0;
/**
* A new search.
*
* The reason for this function is that if the user is typing and we do repeated searches for
* "s", "st", "str", "stri" ... "string" we may (depending on the particular implementation)
* reuse the previous results for a speedup.
*
* @return null if the type does not support this or the particular search string makes it impossible to
* fulfill the search request.
*/
virtual std::auto_ptr<result> search( const char* ) = 0;
};
struct index {
public:
virtual ~index() { }
/**
* Adds the document \param str under the name \param docname
*/
virtual void add( const char* str, const char* docname ) = 0;
/**
* \see add( const char*, const char* );
*/
virtual void add( std::string s, std::string d ) { add( s.c_str(), d.c_str() ); }
/**
* Removes the doc known as docname.
*
* In most implementations of index, this will probably be implemented by marking
* the document as deleted in some way and maintenance() will need to be called later.
*/
virtual void remove_doc( const char* doc ) = 0;
void remove_doc( std::string doc ) { remove_doc( doc.c_str() ); }
/**
* Perform any maintenance tasks necessary.
*
* Should be called every so often, but it can take some time to perform these operations,
* so call them when the app is idle.
*/
virtual void maintenance() { }
/**
* Returns all documents matching \param pattern.
*/
virtual std::auto_ptr<result> search( const char* pattern ) const = 0;
/**
* Returns the number of docs indexed.
*/
virtual unsigned ndocs() const = 0;
/**
* Since docs are returned by index, there names need to be looked up.
*/
virtual std::string lookup_docname( unsigned ) const = 0;
private:
};
}
#endif /* LPC_INDEX_H1105549284_INCLUDE_GUARD_ */