IIndex.py

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"""Index Interface."""

import Interface

class IIndex(Interface.Base):
    """Interface for an Index."""

    def length():
        """Return the number of documents in the index."""

    def get_words(docid):
        """Return a list of wordids for the given docid."""

    def search(term):
        """Execute a search on a single term given as a string.

        Return an IIBTree mapping docid to score, or None if all docs
        match due to the lexicon returning no wids for the term (e.g.,
        if the term is entirely composed of stopwords).
        """

    def search_phrase(phrase):
        """Execute a search on a phrase given as a string.

        Return an IIBtree mapping docid to score.
        """

    def search_glob(pattern):
        """Execute a pattern search.

        The pattern represents a set of words by using * and ?.  For
        example, "foo*" represents the set of all words in the lexicon
        starting with "foo".

        Return an IIBTree mapping docid to score.
        """

    def query_weight(terms):
        """Return the weight for a set of query terms.

        'terms' is a sequence of all terms included in the query,
        although not terms with a not.  If a term appears more than
        once in a query, it should appear more than once in terms.
        """

    def index_doc(docid, text):
        "XXX"

    def unindex_doc(docid):
        "XXX"