com.atlassian.sal.api.search
Interface SearchProvider

public interface SearchProvider

Allows for simple string based searches in an application. Currently this only supports String based (quicksearch type) queries, but this may be extended in the future.

Since:

2.0

Method Summary

SearchResults

search(java.lang.String username, java.lang.String searchQuery) Runs the a search given a query and returns a searchResult.

Method Detail

search

SearchResults search(java.lang.String username,
                     java.lang.String searchQuery)

Runs the a search given a query and returns a searchResult. The query will return as many hits as the underlying application would return by default.

The searchQuery should be URLencoded, as it may contain parameters as well. For example if a search should only return a maximum number of hits the searchQuery would be '&maxHits=20'

Parameters:

username - The user to run the search as. May be null for anonymous searches.

searchQuery - The query to run

Returns:

A SearchResults object