01: /**********************************************************************************
02: * $URL: https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/search/tags/sakai_2-4-1/search-api/api/src/java/org/sakaiproject/search/api/rdf/RDFSearchService.java $
03: * $Id: RDFSearchService.java 14695 2006-09-15 12:46:52Z ian@caret.cam.ac.uk $
04: ***********************************************************************************
05: *
06: * Copyright (c) 2006 The Sakai Foundation.
07: *
08: * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 1.0 (the "License");
09: * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
10: * You may obtain a copy of the License at
11: *
12: * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl1.php
13: *
14: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
15: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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17: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
18: * limitations under the License.
19: *
20: **********************************************************************************/package org.sakaiproject.search.api.rdf;
21:
22: import java.util.List;
23:
24: /**
25: * @author ieb
26: *
27: */
28: public interface RDFSearchService {
29:
30: /**
31: * adds a block of RDF expressed as XML-RDF to the store
32: * @param data
33: * @throws RDFIndexException
34: */
35: void addData(String data) throws RDFIndexException;
36:
37: /**
38: * Performs a table based search using RQL on the RDF store returning a list of results.
39: * Ideally the implementation should not force binding to the underlying provider in the list
40: * @param searchSpec
41: * @return
42: * @throws RDFSearchException
43: */
44: List search(String searchSpec) throws RDFSearchException;
45:
46: }
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