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package edu.uci.ics.hyracks.storage.am.lsm.invertedindex.api;

import edu.uci.ics.hyracks.dataflow.common.data.accessors.ITupleReference;

public interface IInvertedListBuilder {
    public boolean startNewList(ITupleReference tuple, int numTokenFields);

    // returns true if successfully appended
    // returns false if not enough space in targetBuf
    public boolean appendElement(ITupleReference tuple, int numTokenFields, int numElementFields);

    public void setTargetBuffer(byte[] targetBuf, int startPos);

    public int getListSize();

    public int getPos();
}