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package org.elasticsearch.search.rescore;
import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
import org.apache.lucene.search.Explanation;
import org.apache.lucene.search.TopDocs;
import org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchType;
import org.elasticsearch.search.internal.SearchContext;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Set;
/**
* A query rescorer interface used to re-rank the Top-K results of a previously
* executed search.
*/
public interface Rescorer {
/**
* Returns the name of this rescorer
*/
String name();
/**
* Modifies the result of the previously executed search ({@link TopDocs})
* in place based on the given {@link RescoreSearchContext}.
*
* @param topDocs the result of the previously executed search
* @param context the current {@link SearchContext}. This will never be <code>null</code>.
* @param rescoreContext the {@link RescoreSearchContext}. This will never be <code>null</code>
* @throws IOException if an {@link IOException} occurs during rescoring
*/
TopDocs rescore(TopDocs topDocs, SearchContext context, RescoreSearchContext rescoreContext) throws IOException;
/**
* Executes an {@link Explanation} phase on the rescorer.
*
* @param topLevelDocId the global / top-level document ID to explain
* @param context the explanation for the results being fed to this rescorer
* @param rescoreContext context for this rescorer
* @param sourceExplanation explanation of the source of the documents being fed into this rescore
* @return the explain for the given top level document ID.
* @throws IOException if an {@link IOException} occurs
*/
Explanation explain(int topLevelDocId, SearchContext context, RescoreSearchContext rescoreContext,
Explanation sourceExplanation) throws IOException;
/**
* Extracts all terms needed to execute this {@link Rescorer}. This method
* is executed in a distributed frequency collection roundtrip for
* {@link SearchType#DFS_QUERY_THEN_FETCH}
*/
void extractTerms(SearchContext context, RescoreSearchContext rescoreContext, Set<Term> termsSet);
/*
* TODO: At this point we only have one implementation which modifies the
* TopDocs given. Future implementations might return actual results that
* contain information about the rescore context. For example a pair wise
* reranker might return the feature vector for the top N window in order to
* merge results on the callers side. For now we don't have a return type at
* all since something like this requires a more general refactoring how
* documents are merged since in such a case we don't really have a score
* per document rather a "X is more relevant than Y" relation
*/
}