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package org.wso2.carbon.apimgt.core.dao.impl;

/**
 * This interface produces search queries for API store.
 */
interface ApiAttributeSearchStore {

    /**
     * This method will return the query query to be executed, for each search type
     * (i.e - tag, subcontext or general search)
     *
     * @param roleListBuilder a string builder constructed based on user roles
     * @param searchQuery a sub string containing only the attributes
     * @param offset the starting point of the search results.
     * @param limit number of search results that will be returned.
     * @return the query to be executed, as a string
     */
    String getStoreAttributeSearchQuery(StringBuilder roleListBuilder,
                                        StringBuilder searchQuery, int offset, int limit);
}

Add interface to attribute search in store.