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package org.apache.lucene.index;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.lucene.search.DocIdSetIterator;

/**
 * Source of {@link Impacts}.
 * @lucene.internal
 */
public interface ImpactsSource {

  /**
   * Shallow-advance to {@code target}. This is cheaper than calling
   * {@link DocIdSetIterator#advance(int)} and allows further calls to
   * {@link #getImpacts()} to ignore doc IDs that are less than {@code target}
   * in order to get more precise information about impacts.
   * This method may not be called on targets that are less than the current
   * {@link DocIdSetIterator#docID()}.
   * After this method has been called, {@link DocIdSetIterator#nextDoc()} may
   * not be called if the current doc ID is less than {@code target - 1} and
   * {@link DocIdSetIterator#advance(int)} may not be called on targets that
   * are less than {@code target}.
   */
  void advanceShallow(int target) throws IOException;

  /**
   * Get information about upcoming impacts for doc ids that are greater than
   * or equal to the maximum of {@link DocIdSetIterator#docID()} and the last
   * target that was passed to {@link #advanceShallow(int)}.
   * This method may not be called on an unpositioned iterator on which
   * {@link #advanceShallow(int)} has never been called.
   * NOTE: advancing this iterator may invalidate the returned impacts, so they
   * should not be used after the iterator has been advanced.
   */
  Impacts getImpacts() throws IOException;

}