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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 org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.parser.EscapeQuerySyntax;
+
+/**
+ * A {@link MatchAllDocsQueryNode} indicates that a query node tree or subtree
+ * will match all documents if executed in the index.
+ */
+public class MatchAllDocsQueryNode extends QueryNodeImpl {
+
+ private static final long serialVersionUID = -7050381275423477809L;
+
+ public MatchAllDocsQueryNode() {
+ // empty constructor
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public String toString() {
+ return "<matchAllDocs field='*' term='*'/>";
+ }
+
+ public CharSequence toQueryString(EscapeQuerySyntax escapeSyntaxParser) {
+ return "*:*";
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public MatchAllDocsQueryNode cloneTree() throws CloneNotSupportedException {
+ MatchAllDocsQueryNode clone = (MatchAllDocsQueryNode) super.cloneTree();
+
+ // nothing to clone
+
+ return clone;
+ }
+}