package org.apache.lucene.search.function;
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import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader.AtomicReaderContext;
import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader.CompositeReaderContext;
import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader.ReaderContext;
import org.apache.lucene.search.function.DocValues;
import java.io.IOException;
/**
* Expert: source of values for basic function queries.
* <P>At its default/simplest form, values - one per doc - are used as the score of that doc.
* <P>Values are instantiated as
* {@link org.apache.lucene.search.function.DocValues DocValues} for a particular reader.
* <P>ValueSource implementations differ in RAM requirements: it would always be a factor
* of the number of documents, but for each document the number of bytes can be 1, 2, 4, or 8.
*
* @lucene.experimental
*
*
*/
public abstract class ValueSource {
/**
* Return the DocValues used by the function query.
* @param context the IndexReader used to read these values.
* If any caching is involved, that caching would also be IndexReader based.
* @throws IOException for any error.
*/
public abstract DocValues getValues(AtomicReaderContext context) throws IOException;
/**
* Return the DocValues used by the function query.
* @deprecated (4.0) This method is temporary, to ease the migration to segment-based
* searching. Please change your code to not pass {@link CompositeReaderContext} to these
* APIs. Use {@link #getValues(IndexReader.AtomicReaderContext)} instead
*/
@Deprecated
public DocValues getValues(ReaderContext context) throws IOException {
return getValues((AtomicReaderContext) context);
}
/**
* description of field, used in explain()
*/
public abstract String description();
/* (non-Javadoc) @see java.lang.Object#toString() */
@Override
public String toString() {
return description();
}
/**
* Needed for possible caching of query results - used by {@link ValueSourceQuery#equals(Object)}.
* @see Object#equals(Object)
*/
@Override
public abstract boolean equals(Object o);
/**
* Needed for possible caching of query results - used by {@link ValueSourceQuery#hashCode()}.
* @see Object#hashCode()
*/
@Override
public abstract int hashCode();
}