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package org.apache.solr.search;

import org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher;
import org.apache.lucene.search.TopDocsCollector;
import org.apache.lucene.search.Query;
import org.apache.solr.handler.component.MergeStrategy;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 *  <b>Note: This API is experimental and may change in non backward-compatible ways in the future</b>
 **/

public abstract class RankQuery extends ExtendedQueryBase {

  public abstract TopDocsCollector getTopDocsCollector(int len, QueryCommand cmd, IndexSearcher searcher) throws IOException;
  public abstract MergeStrategy getMergeStrategy();
  public abstract RankQuery wrap(Query mainQuery);

}
