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package org.elasticsearch.script;

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import org.apache.lucene.search.Explanation;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * To be implemented by {@link SearchScript} which can provided an {@link Explanation} of the score
 * This is currently not used inside elasticsearch but it is used, see for example here:
 * https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/issues/8561
 */
public interface ExplainableSearchScript extends SearchScript {

    /**
     * Build the explanation of the current document being scored
     * The script score needs the Explanation of the sub query score because it might use _score and
     * want to explain how that was computed.
     *
     * @param subQueryScore the Explanation for _score
     */
    Explanation explain(Explanation subQueryScore) throws IOException;

}