Andrew Hind 57e7a4f77e Added support for result set meta data
Added size limits for result sets
Updated/improved comments

git-svn-id: https://svn.alfresco.com/repos/alfresco-enterprise/alfresco/HEAD/root@2573 c4b6b30b-aa2e-2d43-bbcb-ca4b014f7261
2006-03-23 15:14:22 +00:00

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/*
* Copyright (C) 2005 Alfresco, Inc.
*
* Licensed under the Mozilla Public License version 1.1
* with a permitted attribution clause. You may obtain a
* copy of the License at
*
* http://www.alfresco.org/legal/license.txt
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
* software distributed under the License is distributed on an
* "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND,
* either express or implied. See the License for the specific
* language governing permissions and limitations under the
* License.
*/
package org.alfresco.service.cmr.search;
import java.util.List;
import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.ChildAssociationRef;
import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.NodeRef;
import org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.Path;
/**
* An iterable result set from a searcher query. TODO: Expose meta data and XML
*
* @author andyh
*
*/
public interface ResultSet extends Iterable<ResultSetRow> // Specfic iterator
// over
// ResultSetRows
{
/**
* Get the relative paths to all the elements contained in this result set
*/
Path[] getPropertyPaths();
/**
* Get the size of the result set
*/
int length();
/**
* Get the id of the node at the given index
*/
NodeRef getNodeRef(int n);
/**
* Get the score for the node at the given position
*/
float getScore(int n);
/**
* Close the result set.
* This must be called to allow the release of underlying resources.
*/
void close();
/**
* Get a row from the result set by row index, starting at 0.
*
* @param i
* @return
*/
ResultSetRow getRow(int i);
/**
* Get a list of all the node refs in the result set
* @return
*/
List<NodeRef> getNodeRefs();
/**
* Get a list of all the child associations in the results set.
*
* @return
*/
List<ChildAssociationRef> getChildAssocRefs();
/**
* Get the child assoc ref for a particular row.
*
* @param n
* @return
*/
ChildAssociationRef getChildAssocRef(int n);
/**
* Get the meta data for the results set.
*
* @return
*/
ResultSetMetaData getResultSetMetaData();
}