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+package org.apache.lucene.facet.index.params;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.facet.index.categorypolicy.OrdinalPolicy;
+import org.apache.lucene.facet.index.categorypolicy.PathPolicy;
+import org.apache.lucene.facet.taxonomy.CategoryPath;
+
+/**
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Parameters on how facets are to be written to the index.
+ * For example, which fields and terms are used to refer to the indexed posting list.
+ * <P>
+ * If non-default parameters were used during indexing, the same parameters
+ * must also be passed during faceted search. This requirement is analogous
+ * to the requirement during search to know which fields were indexed, and which
+ * Analyzer was used on the text.
+ *
+ * @lucene.experimental
+ */
+public interface FacetIndexingParams extends Serializable {
+
+ /**
+ * The name of the category-list to put this category in, or null if this
+ * category should not be aggregatable.
+ * <P>
+ * By default, all categories are written to the same category list, but
+ * applications which know in advance that in some situations only parts
+ * of the category hierarchy needs to be counted can divide the categories
+ * into two or more different category lists.
+ * <P>
+ * If null is returned for a category, it means that this category should
+ * not appear in any category list, and thus counts for it cannot be
+ * aggregated. This category can still be used for drill-down, even though
+ * the count for it is not known.
+ */
+ public CategoryListParams getCategoryListParams(CategoryPath category);
+
+ /**
+ * Return info about all category lists in the index.
+ *
+ * @see #getCategoryListParams(CategoryPath)
+ */
+ public Iterable<CategoryListParams> getAllCategoryListParams();
+
+ // TODO (Facet): Add special cases of exact/non-exact category term-text
+
+ /**
+ * Return the drilldown Term-Text which does not need to do any allocations.
+ * The number of chars set is returned.
+ * <p>
+ * Note: Make sure <code>buffer</code> is large enough.
+ * @see CategoryPath#charsNeededForFullPath()
+ */
+ public int drillDownTermText(CategoryPath path, char[] buffer);
+
+ /**
+ * Get the partition size.
+ * Same value should be used during the life time of an index.
+ * At search time this value is compared with actual taxonomy size and their minimum is used.
+ */
+ public int getPartitionSize();
+
+ /**
+ * Get the policy for indexing category <b>paths</b>,
+ * used for deciding how "high" to climb in taxonomy
+ * from a category when ingesting its category paths.
+ */
+ public PathPolicy getPathPolicy();
+
+ /**
+ * Get the policy for indexing category <b>ordinals</b>,
+ * used for deciding how "high" to climb in taxonomy
+ * from a category when ingesting its ordinals
+ */
+ public OrdinalPolicy getOrdinalPolicy();
+
+ /**
+ * Get the delimiter character used internally for drill-down terms
+ */
+ public char getFacetDelimChar();
+}