SearcherIF (Ontopia)

All Superinterfaces:

IndexIF

All Known Implementing Classes:

RDBMSSearcher
```
public interface SearcherIF
extends IndexIF
```
INTERNAL: Represents a search engine. Instances of this class are able to perform searches across a collection of documents.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`void`	`close()`	INTERNAL: Releases resources associated with this searcher.
`SearchResultIF`	`search(String query)`	INTERNAL: Performs a query on an index.

- Method Detail
  - search
```
SearchResultIF search(String query)
               throws IOException
```
    INTERNAL: Performs a query on an index. The actual query syntax is search engine dependent.
    
    Throws:
    
    IOException
  - close
```
void close()
    throws IOException
```
    INTERNAL: Releases resources associated with this searcher.
    
    Throws:
    
    IOException