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package org.apache.lucene.codecs;


import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.lucene.index.FieldInfos; // javadocs
import org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentInfo;
import org.apache.lucene.store.Directory;
import org.apache.lucene.store.IOContext;

/**
 * Encodes/decodes {@link FieldInfos}
 * @lucene.experimental
 */
public abstract class FieldInfosFormat {
  /** Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass 
   *  constructors, typically implicit.) */
  protected FieldInfosFormat() {
  }
  
  /** Read the {@link FieldInfos} previously written with {@link #write}. */
  public abstract FieldInfos read(Directory directory, SegmentInfo segmentInfo, String segmentSuffix, IOContext iocontext) throws IOException;

  /** Writes the provided {@link FieldInfos} to the
   *  directory. */
  public abstract void write(Directory directory, SegmentInfo segmentInfo, String segmentSuffix, FieldInfos infos, IOContext context) throws IOException;
}