Package com.yahoo.search

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The top level classes of the search container. A Query represents the incoming request, which produces a Result by chained execution of a set of Searchers.

Related Packages

Package	Description
com.yahoo.search.cluster	Standard searchers to compose in source search chains (those containing searchers specific for one source and which ends with a call to some provider) which calls a cluster of provider nodes.
com.yahoo.search.config
com.yahoo.search.dispatch
com.yahoo.search.federation	The federation layer on top of the search container.
com.yahoo.search.grouping
com.yahoo.search.handler	The search handler, which handles search request to the Container by translating the Request into a Query, invoking the chosen Search Chain to get a Result, which it translates to a Response which is returned to the Container.
com.yahoo.search.logging
com.yahoo.search.match
com.yahoo.search.pagetemplates
com.yahoo.search.query	The search query model
com.yahoo.search.querytransform	Vespa search platform query transformation infrastructure.
com.yahoo.search.ranking
com.yahoo.search.rendering
com.yahoo.search.result	The content of a Result produced in response to a Query.
com.yahoo.search.schema
com.yahoo.search.searchchain	Classes for composition of searchers into search chains, which are executed to produce Results for Queries.
com.yahoo.search.searchers	Various useful searchers
com.yahoo.search.statistics
com.yahoo.search.yql	YQL+ integration.

Class	Description
Query	A search query containing all the information required to produce a Result.
Query.Builder
Query.Type	The type of the query
Result	The Result contains all the data produced by executing a Query: Some very limited global information, and a single HitGroup containing hits of the result.
Searcher	Superclass of all Components which produces Results in response to Queries by calling the search method.