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+package org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.config;
+
+/**
+ * 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.util.LinkedList;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.processors.QueryNodeProcessor;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.util.StringUtils;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.Attribute;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeSource;
+
+/**
+ * This class can be used to hold any query configuration and no field
+ * configuration. For field configuration, it creates a empty
+ * {@link FieldConfig} object and delegate it to field config listeners,
+ * these are responsible for setting up all the field configuration.
+ *
+ * {@link QueryConfigHandler} should be extended by classes that intends to
+ * provide configuration to {@link QueryNodeProcessor} objects.
+ *
+ * This class extends {@link AttributeSource}, so {@link Attribute}s can be
+ * attached to it.
+ *
+ * The class that extends {@link QueryConfigHandler} should also provide
+ * {@link FieldConfig} objects for each collection field.
+ *
+ * @see Attribute
+ * @see FieldConfig
+ * @see FieldConfigListener
+ * @see QueryConfigHandler
+ *
+ */
+public abstract class QueryConfigHandler extends AbstractQueryConfig {
+
+ private LinkedList<FieldConfigListener> listeners = new LinkedList<FieldConfigListener>();
+
+ /**
+ * Returns an implementation of
+ * {@link FieldConfig} for a specific field name. If the implemented
+ * {@link QueryConfigHandler} does not know a specific field name, it may
+ * return <code>null</code>, indicating there is no configuration for that
+ * field.
+ *
+ * @param fieldName
+ * the field name
+ * @return a {@link FieldConfig} object containing the field name
+ * configuration or <code>null</code>, if the implemented
+ * {@link QueryConfigHandler} has no configuration for that field
+ *
+ * @deprecated use {@link #getFieldConfig(String)} instead
+ *
+ */
+ @Deprecated
+ public FieldConfig getFieldConfig(CharSequence fieldName) {
+ return getFieldConfig(StringUtils.toString(fieldName));
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Returns an implementation of
+ * {@link FieldConfig} for a specific field name. If the implemented
+ * {@link QueryConfigHandler} does not know a specific field name, it may
+ * return <code>null</code>, indicating there is no configuration for that
+ * field.
+ *
+ * @param fieldName
+ * the field name
+ * @return a {@link FieldConfig} object containing the field name
+ * configuration or <code>null</code>, if the implemented
+ * {@link QueryConfigHandler} has no configuration for that field
+ */
+ public FieldConfig getFieldConfig(String fieldName) {
+ FieldConfig fieldConfig = new FieldConfig(fieldName);
+
+ for (FieldConfigListener listener : this.listeners) {
+ listener.buildFieldConfig(fieldConfig);
+ }
+
+ return fieldConfig;
+
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Adds a listener. The added listeners are called in the order they are
+ * added.
+ *
+ * @param listener
+ * the listener to be added
+ */
+ public void addFieldConfigListener(FieldConfigListener listener) {
+ this.listeners.add(listener);
+ }
+
+}