jadex.bridge.service.search

Interface ISearchManager

All Known Implementing Classes:

LocalSearchManager, ParallelSearchManager, SequentialSearchManager

public interface ISearchManager

Manager for doing searches across service providers.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Object	getCacheKey() Get the cache key.
boolean	isForcedSearch() Test if a search must be performed (no cached values allowed).
IIntermediateFuture<IService>	searchServices(IServiceProvider provider, IVisitDecider decider, IResultSelector selector, Map services) Search for services, starting at the given service provider.

Method Detail

searchServices

IIntermediateFuture<IService> searchServices(IServiceProvider provider,
                                           IVisitDecider decider,
                                           IResultSelector selector,
                                           Map services)

Search for services, starting at the given service provider.

Parameters:

provider - The service provider to start the search at.

decider - The visit decider to select nodes and terminate the search.

selector - The result selector to select matching services and produce the final result.

services - The local services of the provider (class->list of services).

getCacheKey

Object getCacheKey()

Get the cache key. Needs to identify this element with respect to its important features so that two equal elements should return the same key.

Returns:

The cache key or null, if results should not be cached.

isForcedSearch

boolean isForcedSearch()

Test if a search must be performed (no cached values allowed).

Returns:

True, if search must be performed.