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+package org.apache.lucene.benchmark.byTask.feeds;
+
+/**
+ * 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;
+
+/**
+ * Represents content from a specified source, such as TREC, Reuters etc. A
+ * {@link ContentSource} is responsible for creating {@link DocData} objects for
+ * its documents to be consumed by {@link DocMaker}. It also keeps track
+ * of various statistics, such as how many documents were generated, size in
+ * bytes etc.
+ * <p>
+ * For supported configuration parameters see {@link ContentItemsSource}.
+ */
+public abstract class ContentSource extends ContentItemsSource {
+
+ /** Returns the next {@link DocData} from the content source.
+ * Implementations must account for multi-threading, as multiple threads
+ * can call this method simultaneously. */
+ public abstract DocData getNextDocData(DocData docData) throws NoMoreDataException, IOException;
+
+}