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+package org.apache.lucene.facet.index;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.util.encoding.IntEncoder;
+
+/**
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Accumulates category IDs for a single document, for writing in byte array
+ * form, for example, to a Lucene Payload.
+ *
+ * @lucene.experimental
+ */
+public class CategoryListPayloadStream {
+
+ private ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(50);
+ private IntEncoder encoder;
+
+ /** Creates a Payload stream using the specified encoder. */
+ public CategoryListPayloadStream(IntEncoder encoder) {
+ this.encoder = encoder;
+ this.encoder.reInit(baos);
+ }
+
+ /** Appends an integer to the stream. */
+ public void appendIntToStream(int intValue) throws IOException {
+ encoder.encode(intValue);
+ }
+
+ /** Returns the streamed bytes so far accumulated, as an array of bytes. */
+ public byte[] convertStreamToByteArray() {
+ try {
+ encoder.close();
+ return baos.toByteArray();
+ } catch (IOException e) {
+ // This cannot happen, because of BAOS (no I/O).
+ return new byte[0];
+ }
+ }
+
+ /** Resets this stream to begin building a new payload. */
+ public void reset() throws IOException {
+ encoder.close();
+ baos.reset();
+ encoder.reInit(baos);
+ }
+
+}