org.hibernate.search.bridge

Interface TwoWayFieldBridge

All Superinterfaces:

FieldBridge, StringBridge

All Known Implementing Classes:

NumericEncodingCalendarBridge, NumericEncodingDateBridge, NumericFieldBridge, StringEncodingCalendarBridge, StringEncodingDateBridge

public interface TwoWayFieldBridge
extends FieldBridge, StringBridge

A FieldBridge able to convert the index representation back into an object without losing information. Any bridge expected to process a document id should implement this interface.

Author:

Emmanuel Bernard

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Object	get(String name, org.apache.lucene.document.Document document) Build the element object from the Document
String	objectToString(Object object) Convert the object representation to a string.

Methods inherited from interface org.hibernate.search.bridge.FieldBridge

set

Method Detail

get

Object get(String name,
           org.apache.lucene.document.Document document)

Build the element object from the Document

Parameters:

name - field name

document - document

Returns:

The return value is the entity property value.

objectToString

String objectToString(Object object)

Convert the object representation to a string.

Specified by:

objectToString in interface StringBridge

Parameters:

object - The object to index.

Returns:

string (index) representation of the specified object. Must not be null, but can be empty.