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using System;
using IndexReader = Lucene.Net.Index.IndexReader;
using Term = Lucene.Net.Index.Term;

namespace Lucene.Net.Search
{
	
	/// <summary>Implements the wildcard search query. Supported wildcards are <code>*</code>, which
	/// matches any character sequence (including the empty one), and <code>?</code>,
	/// which matches any single character. Note this query can be slow, as it
	/// needs to iterate over many terms. In order to prevent extremely slow WildcardQueries,
	/// a Wildcard term should not start with one of the wildcards <code>*</code> or
	/// <code>?</code>.
	/// 
	/// </summary>
	/// <seealso cref="WildcardTermEnum">
	/// </seealso>
	[Serializable]
	public class WildcardQuery : MultiTermQuery
	{
		public WildcardQuery(Term term) : base(term)
		{
		}
		
		protected internal override FilteredTermEnum GetEnum(IndexReader reader)
		{
			return new WildcardTermEnum(reader, GetTerm());
		}
		
		public  override bool Equals(System.Object o)
		{
			if (o is WildcardQuery)
				return base.Equals(o);
			
			return false;
		}
		public override int GetHashCode()
		{
			return base.GetHashCode();
		}
	}
}