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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.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * A query node implements {@link FieldableNode} interface to indicate that its
+ * children and itself are associated to a specific field.
+ *
+ * If it has any children which also implements this interface, it must ensure
+ * the children are associated to the same field.
+ *
+ */
+public interface FieldableNode extends QueryNode {
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the field associated to the node and every node under it.
+ *
+ * @return the field name
+ */
+ CharSequence getField();
+
+ /**
+ * Associates the node to a field.
+ *
+ * @param fieldName
+ * the field name
+ */
+ void setField(CharSequence fieldName);
+
+}