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+package org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.nodes;
+
+/**
+ * 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.List;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.messages.MessageImpl;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.QueryNodeError;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.QueryNodeException;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.messages.QueryParserMessages;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.parser.EscapeQuerySyntax;
+
+/**
+ * A {@link BoostQueryNode} boosts the QueryNode tree which is under this node.
+ * So, it must only and always have one child.
+ *
+ * The boost value may vary from 0.0 to 1.0.
+ *
+ */
+public class BoostQueryNode extends QueryNodeImpl {
+
+ private static final long serialVersionUID = -3929082630855807593L;
+
+ private float value = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * Constructs a boost node
+ *
+ * @param query
+ * the query to be boosted
+ * @param value
+ * the boost value, it may vary from 0.0 to 1.0
+ *
+ * @throws QueryNodeException
+ */
+ public BoostQueryNode(QueryNode query, float value) throws QueryNodeException {
+ if (query == null) {
+ throw new QueryNodeError(new MessageImpl(
+ QueryParserMessages.NODE_ACTION_NOT_SUPPORTED, "query", "null"));
+ }
+
+ this.value = value;
+ setLeaf(false);
+ allocate();
+ add(query);
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the single child which this node boosts.
+ *
+ * @return the single child which this node boosts
+ */
+ public QueryNode getChild() {
+ List<QueryNode> children = getChildren();
+
+ if (children == null || children.size() == 0) {
+ return null;
+ }
+
+ return children.get(0);
+
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the boost value. It may vary from 0.0 to 1.0.
+ *
+ * @return the boost value
+ */
+ public float getValue() {
+ return this.value;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the boost value parsed to a string.
+ *
+ * @return the parsed value
+ */
+ private CharSequence getValueString() {
+ Float f = Float.valueOf(this.value);
+ if (f == f.longValue())
+ return "" + f.longValue();
+ else
+ return "" + f;
+
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public String toString() {
+ return "<boost value='" + getValueString() + "'>" + "\n"
+ + getChild().toString() + "\n</boost>";
+ }
+
+ public CharSequence toQueryString(EscapeQuerySyntax escapeSyntaxParser) {
+ if (getChild() == null)
+ return "";
+ return getChild().toQueryString(escapeSyntaxParser) + "^"
+ + getValueString();
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public QueryNode cloneTree() throws CloneNotSupportedException {
+ BoostQueryNode clone = (BoostQueryNode) super.cloneTree();
+
+ clone.value = this.value;
+
+ return clone;
+ }
+
+}