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+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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+ */
+package org.apache.lucene.benchmark.quality;
+
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+
+/**
+ * Judge if a document is relevant for a quality query.
+ */
+public interface Judge {
+
+ /**
+ * Judge if document <code>docName</code> is relevant for the given quality query.
+ * @param docName name of doc tested for relevancy.
+ * @param query tested quality query.
+ * @return true if relevant, false if not.
+ */
+ public boolean isRelevant(String docName, QualityQuery query);
+
+ /**
+ * Validate that queries and this Judge match each other.
+ * To be perfectly valid, this Judge must have some data for each and every
+ * input quality query, and must not have any data on any other quality query.
+ * <b>Note</b>: the quality benchmark run would not fail in case of imperfect
+ * validity, just a warning message would be logged.
+ * @param qq quality queries to be validated.
+ * @param logger if not null, validation issues are logged.
+ * @return true if perfectly valid, false if not.
+ */
+ public boolean validateData (QualityQuery qq[], PrintWriter logger);
+
+ /**
+ * Return the maximal recall for the input quality query.
+ * It is the number of relevant docs this Judge "knows" for the query.
+ * @param query the query whose maximal recall is needed.
+ */
+ public int maxRecall (QualityQuery query);
+
+}