ISearchProtocol interface (searchapi.h)

Provides methods for invoking, initializing, and managing IUrlAccessor objects. Methods in this interface are called by the protocol host when processing URLs from the gatherer.

The protocol handler implements the protocol for accessing a content source in its native format. Use this interface to implement a custom protocol handler to expand the data sources that can be indexed.

Inheritance

The ISearchProtocol interface inherits from the IUnknown interface. ISearchProtocol also has these types of members:

Methods

The ISearchProtocol interface has these methods.

ISearchProtocol::CloseAccessor Closes a previously created IUrlAccessor object.
ISearchProtocol::CreateAccessor Creates and initializes an IUrlAccessor object.
ISearchProtocol::Init Initializes a protocol handler.
ISearchProtocol::ShutDown Shuts down the protocol handler.

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	Windows XP with SP2, Windows Vista [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	Windows Server 2003 with SP1 [desktop apps only]
Target Platform	Windows
Header	searchapi.h
Redistributable	Windows Desktop Search (WDS) 3.0

See also

The Indexing Process