core/plugins/org.eclipse.dltk.core/index/org/eclipse/dltk/core/index2/IIndexer.java

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 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *     Zend Technologies
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.dltk.core.index2;

import java.util.Map;

import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IPath;
import org.eclipse.dltk.core.ISourceModule;
import org.eclipse.dltk.core.index2.search.ISearchEngine;

/**
 * Abstract source module indexer
 * 
 * @author michael
 * @since 2.0
 * 
 */
public interface IIndexer {

	/**
	 * Request to index document
	 */
	public void indexDocument(ISourceModule sourceModule);

	/**
	 * Removes container path from index
	 * 
	 * @param containerPath
	 *            Container path
	 */
	public void removeContainer(IPath containerPath);

	/**
	 * Removes document from index
	 * 
	 * @param containerPath
	 *            Container path
	 * @param relativePath
	 *            Document path relative to the container path
	 */
	public void removeDocument(IPath containerPath, String relativePath);

	/**
	 * Returns existing container documents in index
	 * 
	 * @param containerPath
	 *            Container path
	 * @return map where the key is a document path relative to the container
	 *         path, value - last update timestamp
	 */
	public Map<String, Long> getDocuments(IPath containerPath);

	/**
	 * Creates search engine applicable for this indexer type
	 * 
	 * @return search engine
	 */
	public ISearchEngine createSearchEngine();
}