src/com/android/quicksearchbox/ShortcutRepository.java

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2009 The Android Open Source Project
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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package com.android.quicksearchbox;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Holds information about shortcuts (results the user has clicked on before), and returns
 * appropriate shortcuts for a given query.
 */
public interface ShortcutRepository {

    /**
     * Checks whether there is any stored history.
     */
    boolean hasHistory();

    /**
     * Clears all shortcut history.
     */
    void clearHistory();

    /**
     * Closes any database connections etc held by this object.
     */
    void close();

    /**
     * Reports a click on a suggestion.
     * Must be called on the UI thread.
     */
    void reportClick(SuggestionCursor suggestions, int position);

    /**
     * Gets shortcuts for a query.
     *
     * @param query The query. May be empty.
     * @param allowedCorpora The corpora to get shortcuts for.
     * @param maxShortcuts The maximum number of shortcuts to return.
     * @return A cursor containing shortcutted results for the query.
     */
    SuggestionCursor getShortcutsForQuery(String query, List<Corpus> allowedCorpora,
            int maxShortcuts);

    /**
     * @return A map for corpus name to score. A higher score means that the corpus
     *         is more important.
     */
    Map<String,Integer> getCorpusScores();
}