package org.apache.lucene.index;

/**
 * Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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import java.io.IOException;

/** TermDocs provides an interface for enumerating &lt;document, frequency&gt;
 pairs for a term.  <p> The document portion names each document containing
 the term.  Documents are indicated by number.  The frequency portion gives
 the number of times the term occurred in each document.  <p> The pairs are
 ordered by document number.

 @see IndexReader#termDocs
 */

public interface TermDocs {
  /** Sets this to the data for a term.
   * The enumeration is reset to the start of the data for this term.
   */
  void seek(Term term) throws IOException;

  /** Sets this to the data for the current term in a {@link TermEnum}.
   * This may be optimized in some implementations.
   */
  void seek(TermEnum termEnum) throws IOException;

  /** Returns the current document number.  <p> This is invalid until {@link
   #next()} is called for the first time.*/
  int doc();

  /** Returns the frequency of the term within the current document.  <p> This
   is invalid until {@link #next()} is called for the first time.*/
  int freq();

  /** Moves to the next pair in the enumeration.  <p> Returns true iff there is
   such a next pair in the enumeration. */
  boolean next() throws IOException;

  /** Attempts to read multiple entries from the enumeration, up to length of
   * <i>docs</i>.  Document numbers are stored in <i>docs</i>, and term
   * frequencies are stored in <i>freqs</i>.  The <i>freqs</i> array must be as
   * long as the <i>docs</i> array.
   *
   * <p>Returns the number of entries read.  Zero is only returned when the
   * stream has been exhausted.  */
  int read(int[] docs, int[] freqs) throws IOException;

  /** Skips entries to the first beyond the current whose document number is
   * greater than or equal to <i>target</i>. <p>Returns true iff there is such
   * an entry.  <p>Behaves as if written: <pre>
   *   boolean skipTo(int target) {
   *     do {
   *       if (!next())
   * 	     return false;
   *     } while (target > doc());
   *     return true;
   *   }
   * </pre>
   * Some implementations are considerably more efficient than that.
   */
  boolean skipTo(int target) throws IOException;

  /** Frees associated resources. */
  void close() throws IOException;
}


