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 * ModeShape (http://www.modeshape.org)
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 *
 * ModeShape is free software. Unless otherwise indicated, all code in ModeShape
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 * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of
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 * ModeShape is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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 * Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
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 */
package org.modeshape.jcr.api.query;

/**
 * A specialization of the standard JCR {@link javax.jcr.query.Query} interface that adds the ModeShape-specific constant for the
 * {@link #FULL_TEXT_SEARCH full-text search} query language.
 */
public interface Query extends javax.jcr.query.Query {

    /**
     * A string constant representing the ModeShape full-text search query language.
     */
    public static final String FULL_TEXT_SEARCH = "search";

    /**
     * Signal that the query, if currently {@link Query#execute() executing}, should be cancelled and stopped (with an exception).
     * This method does not block until the query is actually stopped.
     * 
     * @return true if the query was executing and will be cancelled, or false if the query was no longer running (because it had
     *         finished successfully or had already been cancelled) and could not be cancelled.
     */
    public boolean cancel();
}
