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package org.apache.solr.handler.component;

import org.apache.solr.search.SolrIndexSearcher;

import java.util.Comparator;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
* The MergeStrategy class defines custom merge logic for distributed searches.
*
*  Note: This API is experimental and may change in non backward-compatible ways in the future
**/


public interface MergeStrategy {

  /**
  *  merge defines the merging behaving of results that are collected from the
  *  shards during a distributed search.
  *
  **/

  public void merge(ResponseBuilder rb, ShardRequest sreq);

  /**
  * mergesIds must return true if the merge method merges document ids from the shards.
  * If it merges other output from the shards it must return false.
  * */

  public boolean mergesIds();


  /**
  * handlesMergeFields must return true if the MergeStrategy
  * implements a custom handleMergeFields(ResponseBuilder rb, SolrIndexSearch searcher)
  * */

  public boolean handlesMergeFields();


  /**
  *  Implement handleMergeFields(ResponseBuilder rb, SolrIndexSearch searcher) if
  *  your merge strategy needs more complex data then the sort fields provide.
  * */

  public void handleMergeFields(ResponseBuilder rb, SolrIndexSearcher searcher) throws IOException;

  /**
  *  Defines the order that the mergeStrategies are applied. Lower costs are applied first.
  * */
  public int getCost();

  final Comparator MERGE_COMP = (o1, o2) -> {
    MergeStrategy m1 = (MergeStrategy) o1;
    MergeStrategy m2 = (MergeStrategy) o2;
    return m1.getCost() - m2.getCost();
  };

}