Package net.sf.mmm.util.search.api

Provides the API for a search.

See: Description

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
SearchCriteria	This is the interface for a transfer-object with the criteria for a search query.
SearchQuery<HIT>	This interface represents a search query that is supposed to be created from particular SearchCriteria.
SearchResult<HIT>	This is the interface for the result of a query for SearchCriteria.

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
SearchTimeoutException	This is the exception thrown if an operation (typically a query) in the persistence exceeded a configured timeout.

Package net.sf.mmm.util.search.api Description

Provides the API for a search.

Search-Util API

This package contains the basic API for search related objects ( SearchCriteria and SearchResult). It aims to standardize the API without requiring specific dependencies (e.g. to JPA or Lucene). The advanced support is therefore located in separate modules like mmm-persistence. Instead, this API here may also be used by transfer objects for clients and other stuff where the technology specific dependency should be avoided.