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+package org.apache.lucene.benchmark.byTask.feeds;
+
+/**
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+
+import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
+import org.apache.lucene.benchmark.byTask.utils.Config;
+
+
+/**
+ * Create queries for the test.
+ */
+public interface QueryMaker {
+
+ /**
+ * Create the next query, of the given size.
+ * @param size the size of the query - number of terms, etc.
+ * @exception Exception if cannot make the query, or if size>0 was specified but this feature is not supported.
+ */
+ public Query makeQuery (int size) throws Exception;
+
+ /** Create the next query */
+ public Query makeQuery () throws Exception;
+
+ /** Set the properties
+ * @throws Exception */
+ public void setConfig (Config config) throws Exception;
+
+ /** Reset inputs so that the test run would behave, input wise, as if it just started. */
+ public void resetInputs();
+
+ /** Print the queries */
+ public String printQueries();
+}