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+package org.apache.lucene.facet.search;
+
+/**
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Iterator over document IDs and their scores. Each {@link #next()} retrieves
+ * the next docID and its score which can be later be retrieved by
+ * {@link #getDocID()} and {@link #getScore()}. <b>NOTE:</b> you must call
+ * {@link #next()} before {@link #getDocID()} and/or {@link #getScore()}, or
+ * otherwise the returned values are unexpected.
+ *
+ * @lucene.experimental
+ */
+public interface ScoredDocIDsIterator {
+
+ /** Default score used in case scoring is disabled. */
+ public static final float DEFAULT_SCORE = 1.0f;
+
+ /** Iterate to the next document/score pair. Returns true iff there is such a pair. */
+ public abstract boolean next();
+
+ /** Returns the ID of the current document. */
+ public abstract int getDocID();
+
+ /** Returns the score of the current document. */
+ public abstract float getScore();
+
+}
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