lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/index/BinaryDocValues.java

package org.apache.lucene.index;

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import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;

/**
 * A per-document byte[]
 */
public abstract class BinaryDocValues {
  
  /** Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass 
   * constructors, typically implicit.) */
  protected BinaryDocValues() {}

  /** Lookup the value for document. */
  public abstract void get(int docID, BytesRef result);
  
  /** An empty BinaryDocValues which returns {@link BytesRef#EMPTY_BYTES} for every document */
  public static final BinaryDocValues EMPTY = new BinaryDocValues() {
    @Override
    public void get(int docID, BytesRef result) {
      result.bytes = BytesRef.EMPTY_BYTES;
      result.offset = 0;
      result.length = 0;
    }
  };
}