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+package org.apache.lucene.search;
+
+/**
+ * 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;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
+import org.apache.lucene.index.Term;
+import org.apache.lucene.util.ToStringUtils;
+
+/** A Query that matches documents containing terms with a specified prefix. A PrefixQuery
+ * is built by QueryParser for input like <code>app*</code>.
+ *
+ * <p>This query uses the {@link
+ * MultiTermQuery#CONSTANT_SCORE_AUTO_REWRITE_DEFAULT}
+ * rewrite method. */
+public class PrefixQuery extends MultiTermQuery {
+ private Term prefix;
+
+ /** Constructs a query for terms starting with <code>prefix</code>. */
+ public PrefixQuery(Term prefix) {
+ this.prefix = prefix;
+ }
+
+ /** Returns the prefix of this query. */
+ public Term getPrefix() { return prefix; }
+
+ @Override
+ protected FilteredTermEnum getEnum(IndexReader reader) throws IOException {
+ return new PrefixTermEnum(reader, prefix);
+ }
+
+ /** Prints a user-readable version of this query. */
+ @Override
+ public String toString(String field) {
+ StringBuilder buffer = new StringBuilder();
+ if (!prefix.field().equals(field)) {
+ buffer.append(prefix.field());
+ buffer.append(":");
+ }
+ buffer.append(prefix.text());
+ buffer.append('*');
+ buffer.append(ToStringUtils.boost(getBoost()));
+ return buffer.toString();
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public int hashCode() {
+ final int prime = 31;
+ int result = super.hashCode();
+ result = prime * result + ((prefix == null) ? 0 : prefix.hashCode());
+ return result;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public boolean equals(Object obj) {
+ if (this == obj)
+ return true;
+ if (!super.equals(obj))
+ return false;
+ if (getClass() != obj.getClass())
+ return false;
+ PrefixQuery other = (PrefixQuery) obj;
+ if (prefix == null) {
+ if (other.prefix != null)
+ return false;
+ } else if (!prefix.equals(other.prefix))
+ return false;
+ return true;
+ }
+
+}