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package org.apache.lucene.search.grouping;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Collection;

import org.apache.lucene.search.Scorer;
import org.apache.lucene.search.SimpleCollector;
import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;

/**
 * A collector that collects all groups that match the
 * query. Only the group value is collected, and the order
 * is undefined.  This collector does not determine
 * the most relevant document of a group.
 * <p>
 * This is an abstract version. Concrete implementations define
 * what a group actually is and how it is internally collected.
 *
 * @lucene.experimental
 */
public abstract class AbstractAllGroupsCollector<GROUP_VALUE_TYPE> extends SimpleCollector {

  /**
   * Returns the total number of groups for the executed search.
   * This is a convenience method. The following code snippet has the same effect: <pre>getGroups().size()</pre>
   *
   * @return The total number of groups for the executed search
   */
  public int getGroupCount() {
    return getGroups().size();
  }

  /**
   * Returns the group values
   * <p>
   * This is an unordered collections of group values. For each group that matched the query there is a {@link BytesRef}
   * representing a group value.
   *
   * @return the group values
   */
  public abstract Collection<GROUP_VALUE_TYPE> getGroups();

  // Empty not necessary
  @Override
  public void setScorer(Scorer scorer) throws IOException {}

  @Override
  public boolean needsScores() {
    return false; // the result is unaffected by relevancy
  }
}