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+package org.apache.lucene.util.encoding;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+
+/**
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * An abstract implementation of {@link IntEncoder} which is served as a filter
+ * on the values to encode. An encoder filter wraps another {@link IntEncoder}
+ * which does the actual encoding. This allows for chaining filters and
+ * encoders, such as: <code><pre>
+ * new UniqueValuesIntEncoder(new DGapIntEncoder(new VInt8IntEnoder()));
+ * {@link UniqueValuesIntEncoder} followed by {@link DGapIntEncoder}
+ </pre></code>
+ * <p>
+ * The default implementation implements {@link #close()} by closing the wrapped
+ * encoder and {@link #reInit(OutputStream)} by re-initializing the wrapped
+ * encoder.
+ *
+ * @lucene.experimental
+ */
+public abstract class IntEncoderFilter extends IntEncoder {
+
+ protected final IntEncoder encoder;
+
+ protected IntEncoderFilter(IntEncoder encoder) {
+ this.encoder = encoder;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void close() throws IOException {
+ // There is no need to call super.close(), since we don't pass the output
+ // stream to super.
+ encoder.close();
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void reInit(OutputStream out) {
+ encoder.reInit(out);
+ }
+
+}