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+package org.apache.lucene.facet.index.categorypolicy;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.facet.index.streaming.CategoryParentsStream;
+import org.apache.lucene.facet.taxonomy.TaxonomyWriter;
+
+/**
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Filtering category ordinals in {@link CategoryParentsStream}, where a given
+ * category ordinal is added to the stream, and than its parents are being added
+ * one after the other using {@link TaxonomyWriter#getParent(int)}. <br>
+ * That loop should have a stop point - the default approach (excluding the
+ * ROOT) is implemented in {@link DefaultOrdinalPolicy}.
+ *
+ * @lucene.experimental
+ */
+public interface OrdinalPolicy extends Serializable {
+
+ /**
+ * Check whether a given category ordinal should be added to the stream.
+ *
+ * @param ordinal
+ * A given category ordinal which is to be tested for stream
+ * addition.
+ * @return <code>true</code> if the category should be added.
+ * <code>false</code> otherwise.
+ */
+ public abstract boolean shouldAdd(int ordinal);
+
+ /**
+ * Initialize the policy with a TaxonomyWriter. This method can be
+ * implemented as noop if the ordinal policy is not taxonomy dependent
+ *
+ * @param taxonomyWriter
+ * A relevant taxonomyWriter object, with which ordinals sent to
+ * {@link #shouldAdd(int)} are examined.
+ */
+ public abstract void init(TaxonomyWriter taxonomyWriter);
+}
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