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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.domain.search;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
+
+/**
+ * This interface should be implemented to provide a way to create
+ * {@link Result} objects from a field name and its value or a {@link Document}
+ * resulted from a search.
+ * 
+ * @see Result
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface ResultFactory<T extends Result> {
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a {@link Result} instance from a field name and its value.
+     * 
+     * @param field the field name
+     * @param value the value
+     * @return the {@link Result} instance
+     */
+    T createResult(String field, String value);
+
+    /**
+     * Creates a {@link Result} instance from a {@link Document} object resulted
+     * from a search.
+     * 
+     * @param document the result {@link Document}
+     * @return the {@link Result} instance
+     */
+    T createResult(Document document);
+
+}