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/*
 * Copyright Elasticsearch B.V. and/or licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one
 * or more contributor license agreements. Licensed under the Elastic License
 * 2.0 and the Server Side Public License, v 1; you may not use this file except
 * in compliance with, at your election, the Elastic License 2.0 or the Server
 * Side Public License, v 1.
 */

package org.elasticsearch.search.rescore;

import org.apache.lucene.search.Explanation;
import org.apache.lucene.search.IndexSearcher;
import org.apache.lucene.search.TopDocs;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * A query rescorer interface used to re-rank the Top-K results of a previously
 * executed search.
 *
 * Subclasses should borrow heavily from {@link QueryRescorer} because it is
 * fairly well behaved and documents that tradeoffs that it is making. There
 * is also an {@code ExampleRescorer} that is worth looking at.
 */
public interface Rescorer {
    /**
     * Modifies the result of the previously executed search ({@link TopDocs})
     * in place based on the given {@link RescoreContext}.
     *
     * @param topDocs        the result of the previously executed search
     * @param searcher       the searcher used for this search. This will never be null.
     * @param rescoreContext the {@link RescoreContext}. This will never be null
     * @throws IOException if an {@link IOException} occurs during rescoring
     */
    TopDocs rescore(TopDocs topDocs, IndexSearcher searcher, RescoreContext rescoreContext) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Executes an {@link Explanation} phase on the rescorer.
     *
     * @param topLevelDocId the global / top-level document ID to explain
     * @param searcher the searcher used for this search. This will never be null.
     * @param rescoreContext context for this rescorer
     * @param sourceExplanation explanation of the source of the documents being fed into this rescore
     * @return the explain for the given top level document ID.
     * @throws IOException if an {@link IOException} occurs
     */
    Explanation explain(int topLevelDocId, IndexSearcher searcher, RescoreContext rescoreContext,
                        Explanation sourceExplanation) throws IOException;

}