trunk/oak-search/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/plugins/index/search/spi/editor/FulltextIndexWriter.java

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package org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.index.search.spi.editor;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * A {@link FulltextIndexWriter} is responsible for writing / deleting documents of type D to the index
 * implementation underlying persistence layer.
 *
 *
 */
public interface FulltextIndexWriter<D> {

    /**
     * Updates the document having given path
     *
     * @param path path of the NodeState which the Document represents
     * @param doc updated document
     */
    void updateDocument(String path, D doc) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Deletes documents which are same or child of given path
     *
     * @param path path whose children need to be deleted
     */
    void deleteDocuments(String path) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Closes the underlying resources.
     *
     * @param timestamp timestamp to be used for recording at status in NodeBuilder
     * @return true if index was updated or any write happened.
     */
    boolean close(long timestamp) throws IOException;
}