// indexRI.java
// -----------------------------
// (C) 2005 by Michael Peter Christen; mc@anomic.de, Frankfurt a. M., Germany
// first published 6.5.2005 on http://www.anomic.de
//
// This is a part of YaCy, a peer-to-peer based web search engine
//
// $LastChangedDate: 2006-04-02 22:40:07 +0200 (So, 02 Apr 2006) $
// $LastChangedRevision: 1986 $
// $LastChangedBy: orbiter $
//
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package de.anomic.index;

import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Set;

public interface indexRI {
    
    public int size();
    public int minMem();
    
    public Iterator wordContainers(String startWordHash, boolean rot); // method to replace wordHashes
        
    public long getUpdateTime(String wordHash);
    public int indexSize(String wordHash);
    public boolean hasContainer(String wordHash); // should only be used if in case that true is returned the getContainer is NOT called
    public indexContainer getContainer(String wordHash, Set urlselection, long maxtime);
    public indexContainer deleteContainer(String wordHash);
    
    public boolean removeEntry(String wordHash, String urlHash);
    public int removeEntries(String wordHash, Set urlHashes);
    public void addEntries(indexContainer newEntries, long creationTime, boolean dhtCase);

    public void close();

}