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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.
+ */
+
+/** Provides access to stored term vector of
+ * a document field. The vector consists of the name of the field, an array of the terms that occur in the field of the
+ * {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Document} and a parallel array of frequencies. Thus, getTermFrequencies()[5] corresponds with the
+ * frequency of getTerms()[5], assuming there are at least 5 terms in the Document.
+ */
+public interface TermFreqVector {
+ /**
+ * The {@link org.apache.lucene.document.Fieldable} name.
+ * @return The name of the field this vector is associated with.
+ *
+ */
+ public String getField();
+
+ /**
+ * @return The number of terms in the term vector.
+ */
+ public int size();
+
+ /**
+ * @return An Array of term texts in ascending order.
+ */
+ public String[] getTerms();
+
+
+ /** Array of term frequencies. Locations of the array correspond one to one
+ * to the terms in the array obtained from <code>getTerms</code>
+ * method. Each location in the array contains the number of times this
+ * term occurs in the document or the document field.
+ */
+ public int[] getTermFrequencies();
+
+
+ /** Return an index in the term numbers array returned from
+ * <code>getTerms</code> at which the term with the specified
+ * <code>term</code> appears. If this term does not appear in the array,
+ * return -1.
+ */
+ public int indexOf(String term);
+
+
+ /** Just like <code>indexOf(int)</code> but searches for a number of terms
+ * at the same time. Returns an array that has the same size as the number
+ * of terms searched for, each slot containing the result of searching for
+ * that term number.
+ *
+ * @param terms array containing terms to look for
+ * @param start index in the array where the list of terms starts
+ * @param len the number of terms in the list
+ */
+ public int[] indexesOf(String[] terms, int start, int len);
+
+}