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+package org.apache.lucene.search.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.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.Searcher;
+import org.apache.lucene.search.Weight;
+
+/** Base class for span-based queries. */
+public abstract class SpanQuery extends Query {
+ /** Expert: Returns the matches for this query in an index. Used internally
+ * to search for spans. */
+ public abstract Spans getSpans(IndexReader reader) throws IOException;
+
+ /** Returns the name of the field matched by this query.*/
+ public abstract String getField();
+
+ @Override
+ public Weight createWeight(Searcher searcher) throws IOException {
+ return new SpanWeight(this, searcher);
+ }
+
+}