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+package org.apache.lucene.search.highlight;
+
+/**
+ * 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 java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream;
+
+/**
+ * A Scorer is responsible for scoring a stream of tokens. These token scores
+ * can then be used to compute {@link TextFragment} scores.
+ */
+public interface Scorer {
+
+ /**
+ * Called to init the Scorer with a {@link TokenStream}. You can grab references to
+ * the attributes you are interested in here and access them from {@link #getTokenScore()}.
+ *
+ * @param tokenStream the {@link TokenStream} that will be scored.
+ * @return either a {@link TokenStream} that the Highlighter should continue using (eg
+ * if you read the tokenSream in this method) or null to continue
+ * using the same {@link TokenStream} that was passed in.
+ * @throws IOException
+ */
+ public TokenStream init(TokenStream tokenStream) throws IOException;
+
+ /**
+ * Called when a new fragment is started for consideration.
+ *
+ * @param newFragment the fragment that will be scored next
+ */
+ public void startFragment(TextFragment newFragment);
+
+ /**
+ * Called for each token in the current fragment. The {@link Highlighter} will
+ * increment the {@link TokenStream} passed to init on every call.
+ *
+ * @return a score which is passed to the {@link Highlighter} class to influence the
+ * mark-up of the text (this return value is NOT used to score the
+ * fragment)
+ */
+ public float getTokenScore();
+
+ /**
+ * Called when the {@link Highlighter} has no more tokens for the current fragment -
+ * the Scorer returns the weighting it has derived for the most recent
+ * fragment, typically based on the results of {@link #getTokenScore()}.
+ *
+ */
+ public float getFragmentScore();
+
+}