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package org.apache.lucene.codecs;


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

import org.apache.lucene.index.Fields;
import org.apache.lucene.util.Accountable;

/** Abstract API that produces terms, doc, freq, prox, offset and
 *  payloads postings.  
 *
 * @lucene.experimental
 */

public abstract class FieldsProducer extends Fields implements Closeable, Accountable {
  /** Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass 
   *  constructors, typically implicit.) */
  protected FieldsProducer() {
  }

  @Override
  public abstract void close() throws IOException;
  
  /** 
   * Checks consistency of this reader.
   * 
   * Note that this may be costly in terms of I/O, e.g. 
   * may involve computing a checksum value against large data files.
   * @lucene.internal
   */
  public abstract void checkIntegrity() throws IOException;
  
  /** 
   * Returns an instance optimized for merging.
   * 
   * The default implementation returns {@code this} */
  public FieldsProducer getMergeInstance() throws IOException {
    return this;
  }
}