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14 
15 #ifndef ICING_SCORING_SCORED_DOCUMENT_HITS_RANKER_H_
16 #define ICING_SCORING_SCORED_DOCUMENT_HITS_RANKER_H_
17 
18 #include "icing/scoring/scored-document-hit.h"
19 
20 namespace icing {
21 namespace lib {
22 
23 // TODO(sungyc): re-evaluate other similar implementations (e.g. std::sort +
24 //               std::queue/std::vector). Also revisit the capacity shrinking
25 //               issue for PopNext().
26 
27 // ScoredDocumentHitsRanker is an interface class for ranking
28 // ScoredDocumentHits.
29 class ScoredDocumentHitsRanker {
30  public:
31   virtual ~ScoredDocumentHitsRanker() = default;
32 
33   // Pop the next top JoinedScoredDocumentHit and return. It is undefined to
34   // call PopNext on an empty ranker, so the caller should check if it is not
35   // empty before calling.
36   //
37   // Note: ranker may store ScoredDocumentHit or JoinedScoredDocumentHit. We can
38   // add template for this interface, but since JoinedScoredDocumentHit is a
39   // superset of ScoredDocumentHit, we unify the return type of PopNext to use
40   // the superset type JoinedScoredDocumentHit in order to make it simple, and
41   // rankers storing ScoredDocumentHit should convert it to
42   // JoinedScoredDocumentHit before returning. It makes the implementation
43   // simpler, especially for ResultRetriever, which now only needs to deal with
44   // one single return format.
45   virtual JoinedScoredDocumentHit PopNext() = 0;
46 
47   // Truncates the remaining ScoredDocumentHits to the given size. The best
48   // ScoredDocumentHits (according to the ranking policy) should be kept.
49   // If new_size is invalid (< 0), or greater or equal to # of remaining
50   // ScoredDocumentHits, then no action will be taken. Otherwise truncates the
51   // the remaining ScoredDocumentHits to the given size.
52   virtual void TruncateHitsTo(int new_size) = 0;
53 
54   virtual int size() const = 0;
55 
56   virtual bool empty() const = 0;
57 };
58 
59 }  // namespace lib
60 }  // namespace icing
61 
62 #endif  // ICING_SCORING_SCORED_DOCUMENT_HITS_RANKER_H_
63