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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 {@link IntEncoderFilter} which ensures only unique values are encoded. The
+ * implementation assumes the values given to {@link #encode(int)} are sorted.
+ * If this is not the case, you can chain this encoder with
+ * {@link SortingIntEncoder}.
+ *
+ * @lucene.experimental
+ */
+public final class UniqueValuesIntEncoder extends IntEncoderFilter {
+
+ /**
+ * Denotes an illegal value which we can use to init 'prev' to. Since all
+ * encoded values are integers, this value is init to MAX_INT+1 and is of type
+ * long. Therefore we are guaranteed not to get this value in encode.
+ */
+ private static final long ILLEGAL_VALUE = Integer.MAX_VALUE + 1;
+
+ private long prev = ILLEGAL_VALUE;
+
+ /** Constructs a new instance with the given encoder. */
+ public UniqueValuesIntEncoder(IntEncoder encoder) {
+ super(encoder);
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void encode(int value) throws IOException {
+ if (prev != value) {
+ encoder.encode(value);
+ prev = value;
+ }
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public IntDecoder createMatchingDecoder() {
+ return encoder.createMatchingDecoder();
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void reInit(OutputStream out) {
+ super.reInit(out);
+ prev = ILLEGAL_VALUE;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public String toString() {
+ return "Unique (" + encoder.toString() + ")";
+ }
+
+}