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+package org.apache.lucene.facet.taxonomy.writercache.cl2o;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.facet.taxonomy.CategoryPath;
+
+/**
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Abstract class for storing Label->Ordinal mappings in a taxonomy.
+ *
+ * @lucene.experimental
+ */
+public abstract class LabelToOrdinal {
+
+ protected int counter;
+ public static final int InvalidOrdinal = -2;
+
+ /**
+ * return the maximal Ordinal assigned so far
+ */
+ public int getMaxOrdinal() {
+ return this.counter;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the next unassigned ordinal. The default behavior of this method
+ * is to simply increment a counter.
+ */
+ public int getNextOrdinal() {
+ return this.counter++;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Adds a new label if its not yet in the table.
+ * Throws an {@link IllegalArgumentException} if the same label with
+ * a different ordinal was previoulsy added to this table.
+ */
+ public abstract void addLabel(CategoryPath label, int ordinal);
+
+ /**
+ * Adds a new label if its not yet in the table.
+ * Throws an {@link IllegalArgumentException} if the same label with
+ * a different ordinal was previoulsy added to this table.
+ */
+ public abstract void addLabel(CategoryPath label, int prefixLen, int ordinal);
+
+ /**
+ * @return the ordinal assigned to the given label,
+ * or {@link #InvalidOrdinal} if the label cannot be found in this table.
+ */
+ public abstract int getOrdinal(CategoryPath label);
+
+ /**
+ * @return the ordinal assigned to the given label,
+ * or {@link #InvalidOrdinal} if the label cannot be found in this table.
+ */
+ public abstract int getOrdinal(CategoryPath label, int prefixLen);
+
+}