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+package org.apache.lucene.index;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+/**
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * The TermVectorOffsetInfo class holds information pertaining to a Term in a {@link org.apache.lucene.index.TermPositionVector}'s
+ * offset information. This offset information is the character offset as set during the Analysis phase (and thus may not be the actual offset in the
+ * original content).
+ */
+public class TermVectorOffsetInfo implements Serializable {
+ /**
+ * Convenience declaration when creating a {@link org.apache.lucene.index.TermPositionVector} that stores only position information.
+ */
+ public transient static final TermVectorOffsetInfo[] EMPTY_OFFSET_INFO = new TermVectorOffsetInfo[0];
+ private int startOffset;
+ private int endOffset;
+
+ public TermVectorOffsetInfo() {
+ }
+
+ public TermVectorOffsetInfo(int startOffset, int endOffset) {
+ this.endOffset = endOffset;
+ this.startOffset = startOffset;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * The accessor for the ending offset for the term
+ * @return The offset
+ */
+ public int getEndOffset() {
+ return endOffset;
+ }
+
+ public void setEndOffset(int endOffset) {
+ this.endOffset = endOffset;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * The accessor for the starting offset of the term.
+ *
+ * @return The offset
+ */
+ public int getStartOffset() {
+ return startOffset;
+ }
+
+ public void setStartOffset(int startOffset) {
+ this.startOffset = startOffset;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * Two TermVectorOffsetInfos are equals if both the start and end offsets are the same
+ * @param o The comparison Object
+ * @return true if both {@link #getStartOffset()} and {@link #getEndOffset()} are the same for both objects.
+ */
+ @Override
+ public boolean equals(Object o) {
+ if (this == o) return true;
+ if (!(o instanceof TermVectorOffsetInfo)) return false;
+
+ final TermVectorOffsetInfo termVectorOffsetInfo = (TermVectorOffsetInfo) o;
+
+ if (endOffset != termVectorOffsetInfo.endOffset) return false;
+ if (startOffset != termVectorOffsetInfo.startOffset) return false;
+
+ return true;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public int hashCode() {
+ int result;
+ result = startOffset;
+ result = 29 * result + endOffset;
+ return result;
+ }
+}