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+package org.apache.lucene.search;
+
+/**
+ * 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;
+
+/**
+ * A DocIdSet contains a set of doc ids. Implementing classes must
+ * only implement {@link #iterator} to provide access to the set.
+ */
+public abstract class DocIdSet {
+
+ /** An empty {@code DocIdSet} instance for easy use, e.g. in Filters that hit no documents. */
+ public static final DocIdSet EMPTY_DOCIDSET = new DocIdSet() {
+
+ private final DocIdSetIterator iterator = new DocIdSetIterator() {
+ @Override
+ public int advance(int target) throws IOException { return NO_MORE_DOCS; }
+ @Override
+ public int docID() { return NO_MORE_DOCS; }
+ @Override
+ public int nextDoc() throws IOException { return NO_MORE_DOCS; }
+ };
+
+ @Override
+ public DocIdSetIterator iterator() {
+ return iterator;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public boolean isCacheable() {
+ return true;
+ }
+ };
+
+ /** Provides a {@link DocIdSetIterator} to access the set.
+ * This implementation can return <code>null</code> or
+ * <code>{@linkplain #EMPTY_DOCIDSET}.iterator()</code> if there
+ * are no docs that match. */
+ public abstract DocIdSetIterator iterator() throws IOException;
+
+ /**
+ * This method is a hint for {@link CachingWrapperFilter}, if this <code>DocIdSet</code>
+ * should be cached without copying it into a BitSet. The default is to return
+ * <code>false</code>. If you have an own <code>DocIdSet</code> implementation
+ * that does its iteration very effective and fast without doing disk I/O,
+ * override this method and return <code>true</here>.
+ */
+ public boolean isCacheable() {
+ return false;
+ }
+}