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package org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.recommender;

/**
 * <p>
 * A {@link Rescorer} which operates on {@code long} primitive IDs, rather than arbitrary {@link Object}s.
 * This is provided since most uses of this interface in the framework take IDs (as {@code long}) as an
 * argument, and so this can be used to avoid unnecessary boxing/unboxing.
 * </p>
 */
public interface IDRescorer {

    /**
     * @param id
     *          ID of thing (user, item, etc.) to rescore
     * @param originalScore
     *          original score
     * @return modified score, or {@link Double#NaN} to indicate that this should be excluded entirely
     */
    double rescore(long id, double originalScore);

    /**
     * Returns {@code true} to exclude the given thing.
     *
     * @param id
     *          ID of thing (user, item, etc.) to rescore
     * @return {@code true} to exclude, {@code false} otherwise
     */
    boolean isFiltered(long id);

}