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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.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.messages.MessageImpl;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.QueryNodeError;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.messages.QueryParserMessages;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.parser.EscapeQuerySyntax;
+
+/**
+ * A {@link GroupQueryNode} represents a location where the original user typed
+ * real parenthesis on the query string. This class is useful for queries like:
+ * a) a AND b OR c b) ( a AND b) OR c
+ *
+ * Parenthesis might be used to define the boolean operation precedence.
+ */
+public class GroupQueryNode extends QueryNodeImpl {
+
+ private static final long serialVersionUID = -9204673493869114999L;
+
+ /**
+ * This QueryNode is used to identify parenthesis on the original query string
+ */
+ public GroupQueryNode(QueryNode query) {
+ if (query == null) {
+ throw new QueryNodeError(new MessageImpl(
+ QueryParserMessages.PARAMETER_VALUE_NOT_SUPPORTED, "query", "null"));
+ }
+
+ allocate();
+ setLeaf(false);
+ add(query);
+ }
+
+ public QueryNode getChild() {
+ return getChildren().get(0);
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public String toString() {
+ return "<group>" + "\n" + getChild().toString() + "\n</group>";
+ }
+
+ public CharSequence toQueryString(EscapeQuerySyntax escapeSyntaxParser) {
+ if (getChild() == null)
+ return "";
+
+ return "( " + getChild().toQueryString(escapeSyntaxParser) + " )";
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public QueryNode cloneTree() throws CloneNotSupportedException {
+ GroupQueryNode clone = (GroupQueryNode) super.cloneTree();
+
+ return clone;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * @param child
+ */
+ public void setChild(QueryNode child) {
+ List<QueryNode> list = new ArrayList<QueryNode>();
+ list.add(child);
+ this.set(list);
+ }
+
+}