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

package org.apache.lucene.index;

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import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits; // javadocs
import org.apache.lucene.util.BytesRef;

/** Also iterates through positions. */
public abstract class DocsAndPositionsEnum extends DocsEnum {
  
  /** Flag to pass to {@link TermsEnum#docsAndPositions(Bits,DocsAndPositionsEnum,int)}
   *  if you require offsets in the returned enum. */
  public static final int FLAG_OFFSETS = 0x1;

  /** Flag to pass to  {@link TermsEnum#docsAndPositions(Bits,DocsAndPositionsEnum,int)}
   *  if you require payloads in the returned enum. */
  public static final int FLAG_PAYLOADS = 0x2;

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

  /** Returns the next position.  You should only call this
   *  up to {@link DocsEnum#freq()} times else
   *  the behavior is not defined.  If positions were not
   *  indexed this will return -1; this only happens if
   *  offsets were indexed and you passed needsOffset=true
   *  when pulling the enum.  */
  public abstract int nextPosition() throws IOException;

  /** Returns start offset for the current position, or -1
   *  if offsets were not indexed. */
  public abstract int startOffset() throws IOException;

  /** Returns end offset for the current position, or -1 if
   *  offsets were not indexed. */
  public abstract int endOffset() throws IOException;

  /** Returns the payload at this position, or null if no
   *  payload was indexed. You should not modify anything 
   *  (neither members of the returned BytesRef nor bytes 
   *  in the byte[]). */
  public abstract BytesRef getPayload() throws IOException;
}