1 /* 2 * $Header: /home/cvs/jakarta-slide/src/share/org/apache/slide/search/basic/IBasicExpression.java,v 1.5 2004/07/28 09:35:01 ib Exp $ 3 * $Revision: 1.5 $ 4 * $Date: 2004/07/28 09:35:01 $ 5 * 6 * ==================================================================== 7 * 8 * Copyright 1999-2002 The Apache Software Foundation 9 * 10 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 11 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 12 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 13 * 14 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15 * 16 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 17 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 18 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 19 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 20 * limitations under the License. 21 * 22 */ 23 24 package org.apache.slide.search.basic; 25 26 import org.apache.slide.search.SearchException; 27 28 /** 29 * An IBasicExpression represents an executable part of the expression tree. 30 * Different stores may have different implementations. 31 * 32 * @version $Revision: 1.5 $ 33 */ 34 public interface IBasicExpression { 35 36 /** 37 * Method execute 38 * 39 * @return a Set of RequestedResource objects 40 * 41 * @throws SearchException 42 * 43 */ 44 IBasicResultSet execute () throws SearchException; 45 46 /** 47 * Method getFactory 48 * 49 * @return the factory which was used to create this expression 50 * 51 */ 52 IBasicExpressionFactory getFactory (); 53 54 /** 55 * Method setFactory 56 * 57 * @param factory the factory which was used to create this expression 58 * 59 */ 60 void setFactory (IBasicExpressionFactory factory); 61 62 } 63 64