lucene/suggest/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/spell/Dictionary.java

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package org.apache.lucene.search.spell;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.lucene.search.suggest.InputIterator;

/**
 * A simple interface representing a Dictionary. A Dictionary
 * here is a list of entries, where every entry consists of
 * term, weight and payload.
 * 
 */
public interface Dictionary {

  /**
   * Returns an iterator over all the entries
   * @return Iterator
   */
  InputIterator getEntryIterator() throws IOException;
}