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

package org.apache.lucene.codecs;

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import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.lucene.index.FieldInfo;
import org.apache.lucene.index.Fields;
import org.apache.lucene.index.MergeState;
import org.apache.lucene.index.SegmentWriteState; // javadocs
import org.apache.lucene.index.Terms;

/** 
 * Abstract API that consumes terms, doc, freq, prox, offset and
 * payloads postings.  Concrete implementations of this
 * actually do "something" with the postings (write it into
 * the index in a specific format).
 * <p>
 * The lifecycle is:
 * <ol>
 *   <li>FieldsConsumer is created by 
 *       {@link PostingsFormat#fieldsConsumer(SegmentWriteState)}.
 *   <li>For each field, {@link #addField(FieldInfo)} is called,
 *       returning a {@link TermsConsumer} for the field.
 *   <li>After all fields are added, the consumer is {@link #close}d.
 * </ol>
 *
 * @lucene.experimental
 */
public abstract class FieldsConsumer implements Closeable {

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

  /** Add a new field */
  public abstract TermsConsumer addField(FieldInfo field) throws IOException;
  
  /** Called when we are done adding everything. */
  @Override
  public abstract void close() throws IOException;

  /** Called during merging to merge all {@link Fields} from
   *  sub-readers.  This must recurse to merge all postings
   *  (terms, docs, positions, etc.).  A {@link
   *  PostingsFormat} can override this default
   *  implementation to do its own merging. */
  public void merge(MergeState mergeState, Fields fields) throws IOException {
    for (String field : fields) {
      FieldInfo info = mergeState.fieldInfos.fieldInfo(field);
      assert info != null : "FieldInfo for field is null: "+ field;
      Terms terms = fields.terms(field);
      if (terms != null) {
        final TermsConsumer termsConsumer = addField(info);
        termsConsumer.merge(mergeState, info.getIndexOptions(), terms.iterator(null));
      }
    }
  }
}