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

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package org.apache.lucene.codecs;

import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentReadState;
import org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentWriteState;
import org.apache.lucene.index.VectorValues;

/**
 * Encodes/decodes per-document vector and any associated indexing structures required to support
 * nearest-neighbor search
 */
public abstract class VectorFormat {

  /** Sole constructor */
  protected VectorFormat() {}

  /** Returns a {@link VectorWriter} to write the vectors to the index. */
  public abstract VectorWriter fieldsWriter(SegmentWriteState state) throws IOException;

  /** Returns a {@link VectorReader} to read the vectors from the index. */
  public abstract VectorReader fieldsReader(SegmentReadState state) throws IOException;

  /**
   * EMPTY throws an exception when written. It acts as a sentinel indicating a Codec that does not
   * support vectors.
   */
  public static final VectorFormat EMPTY =
      new VectorFormat() {
        @Override
        public VectorWriter fieldsWriter(SegmentWriteState state) {
          throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
              "Attempt to write EMPTY VectorValues: maybe you forgot to use codec=Lucene90");
        }

        @Override
        public VectorReader fieldsReader(SegmentReadState state) {
          return new VectorReader() {
            @Override
            public void checkIntegrity() {}

            @Override
            public VectorValues getVectorValues(String field) {
              return VectorValues.EMPTY;
            }

            @Override
            public void close() throws IOException {}

            @Override
            public long ramBytesUsed() {
              return 0;
            }
          };
        }
      };
}