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package org.apache.solr.search;


/**
 * <code>DocList</code> represents the result of a query: an ordered list of document ids with optional score.
 * This list contains a subset of the complete list of documents actually matched: <code>size()</code>
 * document ids starting at <code>offset()</code>.
 *
 *
 * @since solr 0.9
 */
public interface DocList extends DocSet {

  /**
   * Returns the zero based offset of this list within the total ordered list of matches to the query.
   */
  public int offset();

  /**
   * Returns the number of ids in this list.
   */
  @Override
  public int size();

  /**
   * Returns the total number of matches for the search
   * (as opposed to just the number collected according
   * to <code>offset()</code> and <code>size()</code>).
   * Hence it's always true that matches() &gt;= size()
   * @return number of matches for the search(query &amp; any filters)
   */
  public long matches();


  /***
  public int getDoc(int pos);
  ***/

  // hmmm, what if a different slice could be generated from an existing DocSet
  // (and was before)...

  // how to distinguish cached values from logical values?
  // docSet could represent docs 10-20, but actually contain 0-100
  // should the big slice be cached independently, and a new class called
  // DocListSubset be created to refer to a range within the DocList?

  /**
   * Get a subset of an existing DocList.
   * Returns null if not possible.
   */
  public DocList subset(int offset, int len);

  /**
   * Returns an iterator that may be used to iterate over the documents in this DocList
   *
   * <p>
   * The order of the documents returned by this iterator is based on the
   * Sort order of the search that produced it.  The Scoring information
   * is meaningful only if <code>hasScores()</code> returns true.
   * </p>
   * @see #hasScores
   */
  @Override
  public DocIterator iterator();
    
  /** True if scores were retained */
  public boolean hasScores();

  /** The maximum score for the search... only valid if
   * scores were retained (if hasScores()==true)
   */
  public float maxScore();
}


/****  Maybe do this at a higher level (more efficient)

class SmartDocSet implements DocSet {
  static int INITIAL_SIZE=10;
  static int TRANSITION_SIZE=10;

  protected BitSet bits;
  int size;

  protected int[] arr;     // keep small set as an array, or as a hash?
  protected int arrsize;

  public SmartDocSet() {
    if (INITIAL_SIZE>0) {
      arr=new int[INITIAL_SIZE];
    } else {
      bits=new BitSet();
    }
  }


  public void addUnique(int doc) {
    size++;
    if (bits != null) {
      bits.set(doc);
    }
    else {
      if (arrsize<10) {
        arr[arrsize++]=doc;
      } else  {
        // TODO: transition to bit set
      }
    }
  };

  public int size() {
    return size;
  }
  public boolean exists(int docid) {
    return false;
  }
  public DocSet intersection(DocSet other) {
    return null;

  }
  public DocSet union(DocSet other) {
    return null;
  }
}
***/
