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+package org.apache.lucene.search.payloads;
+/**
+ * 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.Serializable;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.Explanation;
+
+/**
+ * An abstract class that defines a way for Payload*Query instances to transform
+ * the cumulative effects of payload scores for a document.
+ *
+ * @see org.apache.lucene.search.payloads.PayloadTermQuery for more information
+ *
+ * @lucene.experimental This class and its derivations are experimental and subject to
+ * change
+ *
+ **/
+public abstract class PayloadFunction implements Serializable {
+
+ /**
+ * Calculate the score up to this point for this doc and field
+ * @param docId The current doc
+ * @param field The field
+ * @param start The start position of the matching Span
+ * @param end The end position of the matching Span
+ * @param numPayloadsSeen The number of payloads seen so far
+ * @param currentScore The current score so far
+ * @param currentPayloadScore The score for the current payload
+ * @return The new current Score
+ *
+ * @see org.apache.lucene.search.spans.Spans
+ */
+ public abstract float currentScore(int docId, String field, int start, int end, int numPayloadsSeen, float currentScore, float currentPayloadScore);
+
+ /**
+ * Calculate the final score for all the payloads seen so far for this doc/field
+ * @param docId The current doc
+ * @param field The current field
+ * @param numPayloadsSeen The total number of payloads seen on this document
+ * @param payloadScore The raw score for those payloads
+ * @return The final score for the payloads
+ */
+ public abstract float docScore(int docId, String field, int numPayloadsSeen, float payloadScore);
+
+ public Explanation explain(int docId, int numPayloadsSeen, float payloadScore){
+ Explanation result = new Explanation();
+ result.setDescription("Unimpl Payload Function Explain");
+ result.setValue(1);
+ return result;
+ };
+
+ @Override
+ public abstract int hashCode();
+
+ @Override
+ public abstract boolean equals(Object o);
+
+}