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package org.apache.lucene.index;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Iterator;
import org.apache.lucene.codecs.FieldsProducer;

/**
 * Provides a {@link Terms} index for fields that have it, and lists which fields do. This is
 * primarily an internal/experimental API (see {@link FieldsProducer}), although it is also used to
 * expose the set of term vectors per document.
 *
 * @lucene.experimental
 */
public abstract class Fields implements Iterable {

  /** Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass constructors, typically implicit.) */
  protected Fields() {}

  /** Returns an iterator that will step through all fields names. This will not return null. */
  @Override
  public abstract Iterator iterator();

  /** Get the {@link Terms} for this field. This will return null if the field does not exist. */
  public abstract Terms terms(String field) throws IOException;

  /**
   * Returns the number of fields or -1 if the number of distinct field names is unknown. If >=
   * 0, {@link #iterator} will return as many field names.
   */
  public abstract int size();

  /** Zero-length {@code Fields} array. */
  public static final Fields[] EMPTY_ARRAY = new Fields[0];
}