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* Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.search.indexes.spi;
import org.apache.lucene.index.IndexReader;
/**
* Responsible for providing and managing the lifecycle of a read only reader.
* Note that the reader must be closed once opened using this same service.
*
* @author Emmanuel Bernard
* @author Sanne Grinovero
*/
public interface ReaderProvider {
IndexReader openIndexReader();
void closeIndexReader(IndexReader reader);
}