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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ * 
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ * 
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.    
+ */
+package org.apache.tuscany.sca.domain.search;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.document.Document;
+
+/**
+ * This interface should be implemented by classes that process a
+ * {@link Document} object resulted from a search and create a {@link Result}
+ * object from it.
+ * 
+ * @version $Rev$ $Date$
+ */
+public interface ResultProcessor {
+
+    /**
+     * <p>
+     * Process the {@link Document} object and returns a {@link Result} object
+     * containing the processed data.
+     * </p>
+     * <p>
+     * A {@link Result} object may be specified to hold the processed data. If
+     * no object is specified, the implementation must create a new object a
+     * return it.
+     * </p>
+     * 
+     * @param document the {@link Document} object resulted from a search
+     * @param result the {@link Result} object that will hold the processed data
+     *            or <code>null</code> a new object should be returned.
+     * @return a {@link Result} object containing the processed data
+     */
+    Result process(Document document, Result result);
+
+}