Bindings.java

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package org.apache.lucene.expressions;

import org.apache.lucene.search.DoubleValuesSource;

/**
 * Binds variable names in expressions to actual data.
 * <p>
 * These are typically DocValues fields/FieldCache, the document's 
 * relevance score, or other ValueSources.
 * 
 * @lucene.experimental
 */
public abstract class Bindings {

  /** Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass 
   *  constructors, typically implicit.) */
  protected Bindings() {}

  /**
   * Returns a DoubleValuesSource bound to the variable name
   */
  public abstract DoubleValuesSource getDoubleValuesSource(String name);

}