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-package org.apache.lucene.search.spans;
-
-/**
- * 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.
- */
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-import java.util.Collection;
-
-/** Expert: an enumeration of span matches. Used to implement span searching.
- * Each span represents a range of term positions within a document. Matches
- * are enumerated in order, by increasing document number, within that by
- * increasing start position and finally by increasing end position. */
-public abstract class Spans {
- /** Move to the next match, returning true iff any such exists. */
- public abstract boolean next() throws IOException;
-
- /** Skips to the first match beyond the current, whose document number is
- * greater than or equal to <i>target</i>. <p>Returns true iff there is such
- * a match. <p>Behaves as if written: <pre>
- * boolean skipTo(int target) {
- * do {
- * if (!next())
- * return false;
- * } while (target > doc());
- * return true;
- * }
- * </pre>
- * Most implementations are considerably more efficient than that.
- */
- public abstract boolean skipTo(int target) throws IOException;
-
- /** Returns the document number of the current match. Initially invalid. */
- public abstract int doc();
-
- /** Returns the start position of the current match. Initially invalid. */
- public abstract int start();
-
- /** Returns the end position of the current match. Initially invalid. */
- public abstract int end();
-
- /**
- * Returns the payload data for the current span.
- * This is invalid until {@link #next()} is called for
- * the first time.
- * This method must not be called more than once after each call
- * of {@link #next()}. However, most payloads are loaded lazily,
- * so if the payload data for the current position is not needed,
- * this method may not be called at all for performance reasons. An ordered
- * SpanQuery does not lazy load, so if you have payloads in your index and
- * you do not want ordered SpanNearQuerys to collect payloads, you can
- * disable collection with a constructor option.<br>
- * <br>
- * Note that the return type is a collection, thus the ordering should not be relied upon.
- * <br/>
- * @lucene.experimental
- *
- * @return a List of byte arrays containing the data of this payload, otherwise null if isPayloadAvailable is false
- * @throws java.io.IOException
- */
- // TODO: Remove warning after API has been finalized
- public abstract Collection<byte[]> getPayload() throws IOException;
-
- /**
- * Checks if a payload can be loaded at this position.
- * <p/>
- * Payloads can only be loaded once per call to
- * {@link #next()}.
- *
- * @return true if there is a payload available at this position that can be loaded
- */
- public abstract boolean isPayloadAvailable();
-
-}