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+package org.apache.lucene.util.encoding;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+
+/**
+ * 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 {@link IntEncoderFilter} which sorts the values to encode in ascending
+ * order before encoding them. Encoding therefore happens upon calling
+ * {@link #close()}. Since this encoder is usually chained with another encoder
+ * that relies on sorted values, it does not offer a default constructor.
+ *
+ * @lucene.experimental
+ */
+public class SortingIntEncoder extends IntEncoderFilter {
+
+ private float grow = 2.0f;
+ private int index = 0;
+ private int[] set = new int[1024];
+
+ /** Initializes with the given encoder. */
+ public SortingIntEncoder(IntEncoder encoder) {
+ super(encoder);
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void close() throws IOException {
+ if (index == 0) {
+ return;
+ }
+
+ Arrays.sort(set, 0, index);
+ for (int i = 0; i < index; i++) {
+ encoder.encode(set[i]);
+ }
+ encoder.close();
+ index = 0;
+
+ super.close();
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void encode(int value) throws IOException {
+ if (index == set.length) {
+ int[] newSet = new int[(int) (set.length * grow)];
+ System.arraycopy(set, 0, newSet, 0, set.length);
+ set = newSet;
+ }
+ set[index++] = value;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public IntDecoder createMatchingDecoder() {
+ return encoder.createMatchingDecoder();
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void reInit(OutputStream out) {
+ super.reInit(out);
+ index = 0;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public String toString() {
+ return "Sorting (" + encoder.toString() + ")";
+ }
+
+}