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| * Copyright (c) 2005, 2015 IBM Corporation and others. |
| * All rights reserved. This program and the |
| * accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 |
| * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at |
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| * |
| * Contributors: IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation |
| **************************************************************************************************/ |
| package org.eclipse.help.search; |
| |
| /** |
| * An extension of the search engine interface that provides for opening of the results. Engines |
| * that return hits that cannot be opened into the web browser should implement this interface and |
| * also indicate that the search results should be opened by the engine using |
| * {@link ISearchEngineResult2#canOpen()}. |
| * |
| * @since 3.2 |
| * |
| */ |
| |
| public interface ISearchEngine2 extends ISearchEngine { |
| |
| /** |
| * Opens the search result using the engine-specific identifier. When performing the search |
| * operation, search engine is responsible for tagging the results with unique identifiers that |
| * fully reference the results and are not transient. These identifiers can be later used to |
| * open the results by delegating the operation to the engine, or to bookmark the results for |
| * future opening. |
| * |
| * @param id |
| * The engine-specific identifier provided by the search result |
| * @return <code>true</code> if the operation was successful, or <code>false</code> if the |
| * help system should try to open the hit using the provided href. |
| */ |
| boolean open(String id); |
| } |
