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+package org.apache.lucene.queryParser.standard.builders;
+
+/**
+ * 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.QueryNodeException;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.nodes.QueryNode;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.TermQuery;
+
+/**
+ * This builder does nothing. Commonly used for {@link QueryNode} objects that
+ * are built by its parent's builder.
+ */
+public class DummyQueryNodeBuilder implements StandardQueryBuilder {
+
+ /**
+ * Constructs a {@link DummyQueryNodeBuilder} object.
+ */
+ public DummyQueryNodeBuilder() {
+ // empty constructor
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Always return <code>null</code>.
+ *
+ * return <code>null</code>
+ */
+ public TermQuery build(QueryNode queryNode) throws QueryNodeException {
+ return null;
+ }
+
+}