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/*
 * COPIED FROM APACHE LUCENE 4.7.2
 *
 * Git URL: [email protected]:apache/lucene.git, tag: releases/lucene-solr/4.7.2, path: lucene/core/src/java
 *
 * (see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-10786 for details)
 */

package org.apache.lucene.store;

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import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;

/** Abstract base class for output to a file in a Directory.  A random-access
 * output stream.  Used for all Lucene index output operations.
 
 * {@code IndexOutput} may only be used from one thread, because it is not
 * thread safe (it keeps internal state like file position).
 
 * @see Directory
 * @see IndexInput
 */
public abstract class IndexOutput extends DataOutput implements Closeable {

  /** Forces any buffered output to be written. */
  public abstract void flush() throws IOException;

  /** Closes this stream to further operations. */
  @Override
  public abstract void close() throws IOException;

  /** Returns the current position in this file, where the next write will
   * occur.
   * @see #seek(long)
   */
  public abstract long getFilePointer();

  /** Sets current position in this file, where the next write will occur.
   * @see #getFilePointer()
   * @deprecated (4.1) This method will be removed in Lucene 5.0
   */
  @Deprecated
  public abstract void seek(long pos) throws IOException;

  /** The number of bytes in the file. */
  public abstract long length() throws IOException;

  /** Set the file length. By default, this method does
   * nothing (it's optional for a Directory to implement
   * it).  But, certain Directory implementations (for
   * example @see FSDirectory) can use this to inform the
   * underlying IO system to pre-allocate the file to the
   * specified size.  If the length is longer than the
   * current file length, the bytes added to the file are
   * undefined.  Otherwise the file is truncated.
   * @param length file length
   */
  public void setLength(long length) throws IOException {}

}