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+package org.apache.lucene.queryParser.spans;
+
+/**
+ * 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.List;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.QueryNodeException;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.config.QueryConfigHandler;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.nodes.FieldableNode;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.nodes.QueryNode;
+import org.apache.lucene.queryParser.core.processors.QueryNodeProcessorImpl;
+
+/**
+ * This processor changes every field name of each {@link FieldableNode} query
+ * node contained in the query tree to the field name defined in the
+ * {@link UniqueFieldAttribute}. So, the {@link UniqueFieldAttribute} must be
+ * defined in the {@link QueryConfigHandler} object set in this processor,
+ * otherwise it throws an exception.<br/>
+ * <br/>
+ *
+ * @see UniqueFieldAttribute
+ */
+public class UniqueFieldQueryNodeProcessor extends QueryNodeProcessorImpl {
+
+ @Override
+ protected QueryNode postProcessNode(QueryNode node) throws QueryNodeException {
+
+ return node;
+
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ protected QueryNode preProcessNode(QueryNode node) throws QueryNodeException {
+
+ if (node instanceof FieldableNode) {
+ FieldableNode fieldNode = (FieldableNode) node;
+
+ QueryConfigHandler queryConfig = getQueryConfigHandler();
+
+ if (queryConfig == null) {
+ throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+ "A config handler is expected by the processor UniqueFieldQueryNodeProcessor!");
+ }
+
+ if (!queryConfig.has(SpansQueryConfigHandler.UNIQUE_FIELD)) {
+ throw new IllegalArgumentException(
+ "UniqueFieldAttribute should be defined in the config handler!");
+ }
+
+ String uniqueField = queryConfig.get(SpansQueryConfigHandler.UNIQUE_FIELD);
+ fieldNode.setField(uniqueField);
+
+ }
+
+ return node;
+
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ protected List<QueryNode> setChildrenOrder(List<QueryNode> children)
+ throws QueryNodeException {
+
+ return children;
+
+ }
+
+}