@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import java.io.IOException;
  * relevant document, then call {@link #reset()}.  Clients can then call
  * {@link #nextMatch()} to iterate over the matches
  */
-abstract class PhraseMatcher {
+public abstract class PhraseMatcher {
 
   private final float matchCost;
 
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package org.apache.lucene.search;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Base class for exact and sloppy phrase matching
 *
 * To find matches on a document, first advance {@link #approximation} to the
 * relevant document, then call {@link #reset()}.  Clients can then call
 * {@link #nextMatch()} to iterate over the matches
 */
abstract class PhraseMatcher {

  private final float matchCost;

  PhraseMatcher(float matchCost) {
    this.matchCost = matchCost;
  }

  /**
   * Approximation that only matches documents that have all terms.
   */
  abstract DocIdSetIterator approximation();

  /**
   * Approximation that is aware of impacts.
   */
  abstract ImpactsDISI impactsApproximation();

  /**
   * An upper bound on the number of possible matches on this document
   */
  abstract float maxFreq() throws IOException;

  /**
   * Called after {@link #approximation} has been advanced
   */
  public abstract void reset() throws IOException;

  /**
   * Find the next match on the current document, returning {@code false} if there
   * are none.
   */
  public abstract boolean nextMatch() throws IOException;

  /**
   * The slop-adjusted weight of the current match
   *
   * The sum of the slop-adjusted weights is used as the freq for scoring
   */
  abstract float sloppyWeight();

  /**
   * The start position of the current match
   */
  abstract int startPosition();

  /**
   * The end position of the current match
   */
  abstract int endPosition();

  /**
   * The start offset of the current match
   */
  abstract int startOffset() throws IOException;

  /**
   * The end offset of the current match
   */
  abstract int endOffset() throws IOException;

  /**
   * An estimate of the average cost of finding all matches on a document
   *
   * @see TwoPhaseIterator#matchCost()
   */
  public float getMatchCost() {
    return matchCost;
  }

}

This is used in o.a.l.sandbox.search.PhraseWildcardQuery.