lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/Scorer.java

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package org.apache.lucene.search;


import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Objects;

/**
 * Expert: Common scoring functionality for different types of queries.
 *
 * <p>
 * A <code>Scorer</code> exposes an {@link #iterator()} over documents
 * matching a query in increasing order of doc Id.
 * </p>
 * <p>
 * Document scores are computed using a given <code>Similarity</code>
 * implementation.
 * </p>
 *
 * <p><b>NOTE</b>: The values Float.Nan,
 * Float.NEGATIVE_INFINITY and Float.POSITIVE_INFINITY are
 * not valid scores.  Certain collectors (eg {@link
 * TopScoreDocCollector}) will not properly collect hits
 * with these scores.
 */
public abstract class Scorer extends Scorable {

  /** the Scorer's parent Weight */
  protected final Weight weight;

  /**
   * Constructs a Scorer
   * @param weight The scorers <code>Weight</code>.
   */
  protected Scorer(Weight weight) {
    this.weight = Objects.requireNonNull(weight);
  }

  /** returns parent Weight
   * @lucene.experimental
   */
  public Weight getWeight() {
    return weight;
  }

  /**
   * Return a {@link DocIdSetIterator} over matching documents.
   *
   * The returned iterator will either be positioned on {@code -1} if no
   * documents have been scored yet, {@link DocIdSetIterator#NO_MORE_DOCS}
   * if all documents have been scored already, or the last document id that
   * has been scored otherwise.
   *
   * The returned iterator is a view: calling this method several times will
   * return iterators that have the same state.
   */
  public abstract DocIdSetIterator iterator();

  /**
   * Optional method: Return a {@link TwoPhaseIterator} view of this
   * {@link Scorer}. A return value of {@code null} indicates that
   * two-phase iteration is not supported.
   *
   * Note that the returned {@link TwoPhaseIterator}'s
   * {@link TwoPhaseIterator#approximation() approximation} must
   * advance synchronously with the {@link #iterator()}: advancing the
   * approximation must advance the iterator and vice-versa.
   *
   * Implementing this method is typically useful on {@link Scorer}s
   * that have a high per-document overhead in order to confirm matches.
   *
   * The default implementation returns {@code null}.
   */
  public TwoPhaseIterator twoPhaseIterator() {
    return null;
  }

  /**
   * Advance to the block of documents that contains {@code target} in order to
   * get scoring information about this block. This method is implicitly called
   * by {@link DocIdSetIterator#advance(int)} and
   * {@link DocIdSetIterator#nextDoc()} on the returned doc ID. Calling this
   * method doesn't modify the current {@link DocIdSetIterator#docID()}.
   * It returns a number that is greater than or equal to all documents
   * contained in the current block, but less than any doc IDS of the next block.
   * {@code target} must be &gt;= {@link #docID()} as well as all targets that
   * have been passed to {@link #advanceShallow(int)} so far.
   */
  public int advanceShallow(int target) throws IOException {
    return DocIdSetIterator.NO_MORE_DOCS;
  }

  /**
   * Return the maximum score that documents between the last {@code target}
   * that this iterator was {@link #advanceShallow(int) shallow-advanced} to
   * included and {@code upTo} included.
   */
  public abstract float getMaxScore(int upTo) throws IOException;
}