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+package org.apache.lucene.queryParser.surround.query;
+/**
+ * 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.io.IOException;
+
+public interface DistanceSubQuery {
+ /** When distanceSubQueryNotAllowed() returns non null, the reason why the subquery
+ * is not allowed as a distance subquery is returned.
+ * <br>When distanceSubQueryNotAllowed() returns null addSpanNearQueries() can be used
+ * in the creation of the span near clause for the subquery.
+ */
+ String distanceSubQueryNotAllowed();
+
+ void addSpanQueries(SpanNearClauseFactory sncf) throws IOException;
+}
+