src/com/android/globalsearch/SuggestionFactory.java

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 * Copyright (C) 2009 The Android Open Source Project
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package com.android.globalsearch;

import android.content.ComponentName;

/**
 * Contains methods to create special results for the suggestion list such as "search the web",
 * "more results" and the corpus results.
 */
public interface SuggestionFactory extends SourceSuggestionBacker.MoreExpanderFactory,
        SourceSuggestionBacker.CorpusResultFactory {

    /**
     * Gets the component name that the suggestions returned by this factory
     * return from {@link SuggestionData#getSource()}.
     */
    public ComponentName getSource();

    /**
     * Creates a one-off suggestion for searching the web with the current query.
     * The description can be a format string with one string value, which will be
     * filled in by the provided query argument.
     *
     * @param query The query
     */
    public SuggestionData createSearchTheWebSuggestion(String query);

    /**
     * Creates a shortcut for a search made by the user without using a suggestion.
     *
     * @param query The query
     */
    public SuggestionData createWebSearchShortcut(String query);

    /**
     * Creates a one-off suggestion for visiting the url specified by the current query,
     * or null if the current query does not look like a url.
     *
     * @param query The query
     */
    public SuggestionData createGoToWebsiteSuggestion(String query);

}