judge.java

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package org.apache.lucene.benchmark.quality;

import java.io.PrintWriter;

/**
 * Judge if a document is relevant for a quality query.
 */
public interface Judge {

  /**
   * Judge if document <code>docName</code> is relevant for the given quality query.
   * @param docName name of doc tested for relevancy.
   * @param query tested quality query. 
   * @return true if relevant, false if not.
   */
  public boolean isRelevant(String docName, QualityQuery query);

  /**
   * Validate that queries and this Judge match each other.
   * To be perfectly valid, this Judge must have some data for each and every 
   * input quality query, and must not have any data on any other quality query.  
   * <b>Note</b>: the quality benchmark run would not fail in case of imperfect
   * validity, just a warning message would be logged.  
   * @param qq quality queries to be validated.
   * @param logger if not null, validation issues are logged.
   * @return true if perfectly valid, false if not.
   */
  public boolean validateData (QualityQuery qq[], PrintWriter logger);
  
  /**
   * Return the maximal recall for the input quality query. 
   * It is the number of relevant docs this Judge "knows" for the query. 
   * @param query the query whose maximal recall is needed.
   */
  public int maxRecall (QualityQuery query);

}