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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.
+ */
+
+/** Extends <code>TermFreqVector</code> to provide additional information about
+ * positions in which each of the terms is found. A TermPositionVector not necessarily
+ * contains both positions and offsets, but at least one of these arrays exists.
+ */
+public interface TermPositionVector extends TermFreqVector {
+
+ /** Returns an array of positions in which the term is found.
+ * Terms are identified by the index at which its number appears in the
+ * term String array obtained from the <code>indexOf</code> method.
+ * May return null if positions have not been stored.
+ */
+ public int[] getTermPositions(int index);
+
+ /**
+ * Returns an array of TermVectorOffsetInfo in which the term is found.
+ * May return null if offsets have not been stored.
+ *
+ * @see org.apache.lucene.analysis.Token
+ *
+ * @param index The position in the array to get the offsets from
+ * @return An array of TermVectorOffsetInfo objects or the empty list
+ */
+ public TermVectorOffsetInfo [] getOffsets(int index);
+}
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