lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/codecs/NormsProducer.java

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package org.apache.lucene.codecs;

import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.lucene.index.FieldInfo;
import org.apache.lucene.index.NumericDocValues;
import org.apache.lucene.util.Accountable;

/**
 * Abstract API that produces field normalization values
 *
 * @lucene.experimental
 */
public abstract class NormsProducer implements Closeable, Accountable {

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

  /**
   * Returns {@link NumericDocValues} for this field. The returned instance need not be thread-safe:
   * it will only be used by a single thread.
   */
  public abstract NumericDocValues getNorms(FieldInfo field) throws IOException;

  /**
   * Checks consistency of this producer
   *
   * <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 used from the thread that
   * acquires it.
   *
   * <p>The default implementation returns {@code this}
   */
  public NormsProducer getMergeInstance() {
    return this;
  }
}