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+package org.apache.lucene.index;
+
+/**
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/** Abstract API that consumes terms, doc, freq, prox and
+ * payloads postings. Concrete implementations of this
+ * actually do "something" with the postings (write it into
+ * the index in a specific format).
+ *
+ * @lucene.experimental
+ */
+abstract class FormatPostingsFieldsConsumer {
+
+ /** Add a new field */
+ abstract FormatPostingsTermsConsumer addField(FieldInfo field) throws IOException;
+
+ /** Called when we are done adding everything. */
+ abstract void finish() throws IOException;
+}