oracle.ultrasearch.query
Interface Query

All Known Implementing Classes:

AllOf, And, AnyOf, Between, Contains, CtxContains, Equals, From, GreaterThan, LessThan, Or

public interface Query

A search criteria or constraint.

Queries can be combined to form more complicated queries, using And/Or query.

Since:

9.0.2

See Also:

And, Or

compile

public java.lang.String compile()

A query must be able to compile itself into some equivalent Oracle Text query string. The query string returned is used by the 'CONTAINS' Text operator. Subclasses need to override this method with their own implementation.

Returns:

a valid Text 'CONTAINS' query string, not null.

compileForCount

public java.lang.String compileForCount()

A query must be able to compile itself into some equivalent Oracle Text query string. The query string returned is used by the 'CTX_QUERY.COUNT_HITS' Text API. Subclasses need to override this method with their own implementation. NOTE: This method is needed because Text queries can be reduced for faster execution of 'COUNT_HITS'. For example, '(({A} & {B})*2, {A} | {B})' is equivalent to '({A} | {B})' for hit counting purposes, and the later is faster to execute. Since this is an optimization, it is the implementation's responsibility to ensure the query string returned finds the same number of hits as the query string returned by compile(). A trivial, albeit slow implementation of compileForCount() can return the same string as compile().

Returns:

a valid Text query string, not null.