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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.
     * <p>
     * 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. This instance may only be
     * consumed in the thread that called {@link #getMergeInstance()}.
     * <p>
     * The default implementation returns {@code this} */
    public FieldsProducer getMergeInstance() {
        return this;
    }
}