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+package org.apache.lucene.search;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.index.FieldInvertState;
+
+/**
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+/** Expert: Delegating scoring implementation. Useful in {@link
+ * Query#getSimilarity(Searcher)} implementations, to override only certain
+ * methods of a Searcher's Similarity implementation..
+ * @deprecated this class will be removed in 4.0. Please
+ * subclass {@link Similarity} or {@link DefaultSimilarity} instead. */
+@Deprecated
+public class SimilarityDelegator extends Similarity {
+
+ private Similarity delegee;
+
+ /** Construct a {@link Similarity} that delegates all methods to another.
+ *
+ * @param delegee the Similarity implementation to delegate to
+ */
+ public SimilarityDelegator(Similarity delegee) {
+ this.delegee = delegee;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public float computeNorm(String fieldName, FieldInvertState state) {
+ return delegee.computeNorm(fieldName, state);
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public float queryNorm(float sumOfSquaredWeights) {
+ return delegee.queryNorm(sumOfSquaredWeights);
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public float tf(float freq) {
+ return delegee.tf(freq);
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public float sloppyFreq(int distance) {
+ return delegee.sloppyFreq(distance);
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public float idf(int docFreq, int numDocs) {
+ return delegee.idf(docFreq, numDocs);
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public float coord(int overlap, int maxOverlap) {
+ return delegee.coord(overlap, maxOverlap);
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public float scorePayload(int docId, String fieldName, int start, int end, byte [] payload, int offset, int length) {
+ return delegee.scorePayload(docId, fieldName, start, end, payload, offset, length);
+ }
+}