+++ /dev/null
-package org.apache.lucene.facet.index.attributes;
-
-import java.io.Serializable;
-
-import org.apache.lucene.facet.index.CategoryContainer;
-
-/**
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-/**
- * Property that can be added to {@link CategoryAttribute}s during indexing.
- * Note that properties are put in a map and could be shallow copied during
- * {@link CategoryAttributeImpl#clone()}, therefore reuse of
- * {@link CategoryProperty} objects is not recommended. Also extends
- * {@link Serializable}, making the {@link CategoryContainer} serialization more
- * elegant.
- *
- * @lucene.experimental
- */
-public interface CategoryProperty extends Serializable {
-
- /**
- * When adding categories with properties to a certain document, it is
- * possible that the same category will be added more than once with
- * different instances of the same property. This method defined how to
- * treat such cases, by merging the newly added property into the one
- * previously added. Implementing classes can assume that this method will
- * be called only with a property of the same class.
- *
- * @param other
- * The category property to merge.
- * @throws UnsupportedOperationException
- * If merging is prohibited for this property.
- */
- public void merge(CategoryProperty other)
- throws UnsupportedOperationException;
-}